Lin Qi, a freshman chemistry major, has two secrets:
First, she’s broke and has to support herself and her expensive perfumery hobby with part-time jobs and scholarships.
Second, her nose is “magical.” It’s so sensitive she can easily smell things no one else can.
One day, she accidentally enters a restricted area and runs into a man so stunning he seems unreal.
In her panic, she not only breaks her precious perfume, which she had worked so hard to make, but nearly freezes under his icy gaze.
She thinks it’s the most mortifying day of her life, but an even more humiliating moment is still to come.
Shen Yunting, the coldest and most abstinent man in the city, hailed as the “God of Architecture,” comes to find her in person.
His voice is hoarse after finally getting a good night’s sleep, thanks to her scent. The man who supposedly never indulges in worldly pleasures makes her an outrageous offer:
“Be my exclusive perfumer. I’ll pay for all your dreams.”
From then on...
When Lin Qi worries about research funding, Shen Yunting anonymously donates an entire state-of-the-art laboratory.
When her classmates ostracize her, Shen Yunting calmly buys out the family business they’re so proud of.
When Lin Qi wants to open a studio, Shen Yunting designs one himself and presents her with a one-of-a-kind old Western-style mansion in the city center.
Everyone says Lin Qi must have used some kind of bewitching trick to melt that iceberg, who’s been frozen for a thousand years, for her alone.
Only Shen Yunting knows that in this gray-and-white world, where he can smell nothing at all, Lin Qi is his only color, his only scent, and his only reason to live.
