[Transmigrate + Sweet Romance + Intangible Cultural Heritage + System + Bickering Couple]
Su Jinyue, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of incense appreciation, wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the only daughter of the owner of the Su Family Spice Shop in the Northern Song Dynasty.
As soon as she opens her eyes, the spice shop is facing bankruptcy because it owes its artisans wages. Her father seeks help from her fiance's family, who use three hundred taels in silver notes to hold the shop's fate over them, forcing her to hastily sign a broken engagement agreement.
Her disastrous start is already bad enough, but she also gets caught up in the strange-incense case at Ci'en Temple, the disappearance of candidates for incense maker at the Department of Incense, and a poison-incense case at the Bureau of Aromatic Medicine... Fortunately, Su Jinyue has a System that can identify and create all kinds of rare fragrances. Ding-dong! The Literati Incense Catalog is unlocked. Requires two qian of cloves, three qian of borneol, two qian of arborvitae seeds...
Su Jinyue sets three goals for herself: First, revive the Su Family Spice Shop and expand its reach throughout the capital and beyond. Second, take the Department of Incense exam and become the foremost incense maker at the imperial court. Third, marry Meng Yuzhang, the male lead and poetry collector who tried to manipulate her, so he won't go around causing trouble for the young ladies of the capital.
I came across this book by accident. I don't know why no one has read it. I actually think it's quite well written and the text is very fluent 🙂