Spring Mud Ballad: My Noble Son-in-Law Knows Nothing of Perfume

Name: Spring Mud Ballad: My Noble Son-in-Law Knows Nothing of Perfume
Author: The Carousel That Runs Eight Days a Week

春泥词：贵婿不识调香娘

by The Carousel That Runs Eight Days a Week (一周上八天的旋转木马)

Status: Completed
Length: 187k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 6mo ago
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(Historical Romance + Strong Female Lead + The Hero Chases His Wife After Losing Her + Second Male Lead Wins + Feel-Good Story, a scent genius orphan × a marquis’s heir who has lost his sense of smell × the richest man in Jiangnan) After accidentally transmigrating into a book, I spent ten years as his shadow. On his wedding night, I left him a scent called “Spring Mud’s Ashes,” then became a master of imperial commerce, someone far beyond his reach. It took me ten years to make him the capital’s greatest prodigy in the art of incense. On his wedding night, I burned every perfume recipe and left behind just one line. “My lord searched the world for every scent, yet never knew spring mud was the key ingredient.” Later, he knelt in the snow and begged me to return. My name is Shen Wu, an orphan adopted by the Marquis of Dingyuan’s household. My “keen nose,” capable of distinguishing a hundred scents, was only good for serving as the shadow of the heir, Xie Jue. After he lost his sense of smell while saving the emperor, I became the master perfumer behind him, helping him win praise wherever he went. But he said, “A Wu, you’re still nothing but a maid.” On the day of his wedding, I finished brewing the last bowl of “Love-Enticing Incense” and disappeared into the snowy night. I left behind a scent called “Spring Mud’s Ashes” and a few small words: “My lord searched the world for every scent, yet never knew spring mud was the key ingredient.” Later... The Xie family’s incense shop was flooded with returns, their fragrance contest before the emperor became a laughingstock, and the marquis’s household teetered on the brink of ruin. Xie Jue searched the whole city like a madman. “A Wu, come back. I’ll marry you as my principal wife!” But I had opened an incense academy in Yangzhou and become the emperor’s chosen “Greatest Perfumer Under Heaven.” When we met again at a palace banquet, he grabbed my hand, eyes red. Gu Yan, the newly appointed head of the Jiangnan Merchants’ Guild and my business partner, raised his fan with a faint smile. “Lord Xie, let go.” “You’ve dirtied my fiancée’s sleeve.”

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