After her family goes bankrupt, Lin Mo cuts off her long hair and disguises herself as a man, taking the name “Lin Mo” to work at the top-tier star tea house Hidden Osmanthus Studio, charming customers and serving tea to pay off her astronomical debts.
The house’s aloof leading host, Gu Hanchuan, sees through her disguise at a glance, yet hands her an ambiguous contract: “You have three months to win over ten female clients. Fail, and I’ll personally send you to prison.”
By day, she navigates a colorful cast of wealthy patrons, boosting her sales with her people skills and tea-making talent. By night, she is forced to share a room with him, losing ground in their tense games of identifying teas by scent and sharing tea mouth to mouth.
As her identity threatens to be exposed and her mother’s life hangs in the balance, she discovers something even more shocking: he is the son of the enemy who destroyed her family!
On a rain-lashed rooftop, she tries to flee with the money, but he corners her. “I’ll shoulder your debt and avenge your family. I have only one condition, ”
He leans close, his breath scorching:
“Stop pretending to be someone else. Play the leading lady in my story.”
An aloof tea-house champion and a bankrupt heiress, locked in an ambiguous game of wits that begins with scheming and ends in true love.
When osmanthus blossoms boil beneath a snowy night sky, every disguise will melt away in love.
