On New Year's Eve in 2026, Lu Zhiyuan, a top investment banking executive, transmigrated into the body of Shen Yan, the live-in son-in-law of the Su family in the Great Zhao Dynasty.
He woke to a nightmarish start:
• He lived in a drafty woodshed, and most of his monthly allowance was withheld.
• His wife in name alone treated him as if he didn't exist.
• Everyone in the family felt free to walk all over him.
• And a “three-year agreement” hung over his head: if he couldn't prove his worth, he would be thrown out and left to fend for himself on the streets.
Would a modern financial tycoon simply accept his fate?
The moment the abacus beads clicked, he saw through the accountant's schemes. When the scent of inferior incense stung his nose, he casually blended a calming incense worth a fortune. When the family faced a crisis, he came up with one unprecedented business strategy after another.
From the woodshed to the imperial palace, from unwanted son-in-law to imperial merchant.
He used modern knowledge to transform the ancient business world, using the art of incense as his calling card to shape the fate of the realm.
But his greatest challenge was the wife who treated him with icy indifference: Su Wanqing.
She was hiding a shocking secret connected to how he had transmigrated.
And when he finally stood at the pinnacle of power, he faced one final choice:
Return to the modern world with billions to his name, or remain in the past and build a new era together with the person he held dear?
Aroma of the Soul: Watch a modern elite start from nothing as a live-in son-in-law, make his name through the art of incense, and rise to command the realm.
