The Banquet of Stunning Beauty: The Calamity of Lingering Fragrance

A crime and a quest for redemption sparked by transmigration evolve into a tragic song of fate entangling three generations. Zheng Shuyan, a modern girl who transmigrates into the body of a wealthy merchant’s daughter in Hangzhou, awakens to the aftermath of the original owner’s imprisonment and whipping of the musician Su Yan. She embarks on a clumsy journey of atonement, only to become caught in an even deeper vortex of power.

Three Trials and a New Beginning

First Trial: Crime and Redemption (Early Days After Transmigration)

· Original Sin: When Zheng Shuyan wakes, Su Yan has already been beaten until he is on the verge of death.

· Atonement: Zheng Shuyan treats him, clears his name, and tries three times to win him back. At the ferry crossing in Quzhou, she vomits blood in the rain.

· Ending: Su Yan leaves for a clinic in Fujian and entrusts her with a pair of jade bamboo-leaf earrings, her mother’s keepsake.

Second Trial: Breaking and Building (Married Life)

· A New Beginning: She marries Lin Hao, the son of the prefect of Hangzhou, runs a silk shop, and learns how to live in marital harmony.

· Trial: When Crown Prince Zhao Yan tours Jiangnan, he is drugged and breaks into the estate at night, where he rapes Zheng Shuyan.

· Collapse: Zheng Shuyan secretly takes medicine to prevent pregnancy, obtained from Su Yan. Her pregnancy is exposed, and Lin Hao grows suspicious.

· Ending: She “dies” in a postpartum hemorrhage after a difficult labor. Her last words are, “Don’t blame Su Yan.” Her orphaned son, Lin Nian’an, survives.

Third Trial: Mistakes and Chains (Memories Rekindled)

· Strange Rebirth: Three years later, Zheng Shuyan awakens with her memories altered, remembering only that she “loved Su Yan.”

· Twisted Dependence: She finds him in Fujian and threatens him by vomiting blood. Su Yan is forced to marry her while she has amnesia.

· The Truth Returns: Lin Hao’s visit triggers the return of her memories and reveals the truth about the crown prince’s abuse.

· Unexpected Blessing: Pregnant with twins, Su Cheng’an and Su Nianchu, she struggles to survive at a seaside clinic.

· A Dark Interlude: An unfamiliar young nobleman is drugged and breaks in at night. Zheng Shuyan is forced to “help” him, sowing the seeds of another hidden danger.