After taking her own life in the Cold Palace, with poisonous incense eating away at her bones, An Lingrong believed she was doomed to spend this life trapped behind palace walls, a pawn in someone else's hands. When she opens her eyes again, she has become a seven-year-old orphan from the countryside named Lingrong. Clutching her birth mother's keepsake, she sets off to find her father.
The Jiang family of Jiangcheng: her biological father is a powerful tycoon, but he has already taken a new wife. Her stepmother is cruel and vicious, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled and arrogant. In her previous life, the original Lingrong searched for her father, only to be secretly harmed by her stepmother and die in a basement. Now An Lingrong, carrying thirty years of patience and ruthlessness from the imperial harem, has become this “cast-off” whom anyone can push around.
A country bumpkin? Not fit to be seen in public? Liu Yuru, Jiang Yaqi, the blood debt you owe the original Lingrong will be repaid by me, An Lingrong!
Her hypocritical stepmother tries to harm her? She uses ancient incense therapy to evade the danger, then turns the tables and makes her stepmother suffer the consequences. Her stepsister bullies her at school? She creates distinctive scented sachets that win her countless fans, leaving the other girl humiliated. Her scumbag father favors others and keeps his distance? She uses her understanding of people to help him resolve a business crisis and completely expose her stepmother's disguise.
A poisonous concubine from the imperial harem becomes a discarded daughter in a wealthy family. With incense craft in one hand and the art of reading people in the other, she stirs up a storm in the modern world of the rich. She will not only reclaim everything that belonged to the original Lingrong, but also build her own business empire and make everyone who bullied them beg for mercy!
In this life, she is no longer a vine clinging to others. She is a queen with a blade in her hand, blooming with a chilling fragrance!
