One-line premise: As he blends perfume from his younger brother’s ashes for his enemy, he discovers that the first line of the suicide note reads, “May my brother be free and happy forever!”
Twins’ soul swap + coffin-encased substitute + Lovecraftian fragrance
Mad perfumery tycoon, devoted and unhinged top (Lu Zhiheng) × self-destructive, unhinged queen bottom (Gu Yi)
Dark perfumery aesthetic: Making perfume with blood / Recognizing your lover by scent / Recognizing love through pain
Twists within twists: What you think is a substitute romance is actually a fatal attraction among three people, all bound together as one
“They turned me into the echo of your breath, never knowing that fragrance would expose every lie in the end, including the fact that I love you.”
“I want you to use his voice to tell me you love me every day.”
Jiang Qiming gripped him by the throat and poured Gu Zhao’s ashes into his mouth.
In the shadows, Lu Zhiheng toyed with the perfume bottle containing five years’ worth of Gu Yi’s blood, smiling with gentle menace:
“Cry for me, and I’ll help you destroy them.”
