Glazed Colors and Sandalwood

Sob, the rating is low because hardly anyone’s reading. Please give it a chance, everyone! (Historical romance extras will appear from time to time.)

[A cool, aloof Buddhist gentleman won’t stop pursuing me] [Both are each other’s first] [Sweet romance]

Florentine Nightingale ✖️ Oriental Sandalwood

Genius art restorer ✖️ Chairman of a Beijing business association

Late one night in Florence, while restoring a fifteenth-century oil painting, art restorer An You discovers a yellowed Chinese marriage contract hidden in its lining. The silk bears a faint pattern of nightingales and intertwining roses. Pei Yanzhi, heir to the Pei family, has flown in from Beijing overnight. He takes her fingers, smudged with pine soot ink, and says, “Miss An, you haven’t restored a painting. You’ve found the bride our family lost.”

Later, the An and Pei families join through marriage, and Beijing’s elegant young heir finally marries the woman he treasures most.

He refits a climate-controlled restoration studio for her, setting the underfloor heating to precisely the temperature she likes. Before every kiss, he washes his hands with agarwood soap, yet lets her paint nightingales and roses all over his bespoke suit with her pigment-stained fingers. When chemical reagents damage her sense of smell, he burns through the Pei family’s century-old collection of sandalwood, filling the courtyard house with aromatic mist to awaken her nerves. “If you can’t smell roses, I’ll make the whole world remember their fragrance for you.”

An You never imagined that the childhood friend she had forgotten had been silently protecting her all along. Nor did she expect her feelings for him to keep overflowing, growing deeper and deeper. After they marry, the noble, aloof deity of Beijing turns out to be so... clingy.

An You’s heart recognized Pei Yanzhi before she did.

“Youyou, what’s the first rule of art restoration?”

He kisses her fingertips, stained with glaze.

“...Minimal intervention, maximum compatibility?”

“Wrong. Pei Yanzhi will always be compatible with An You.”