- Identity: Shen Qingyan, the daughter of a sinister craftsman family. She learned the Shen family's secret skills of perfume blending and ancient book restoration from her mother since she was a child. Because her mother was falsely accused of possessing banned books and making poisonous incense, the entire Shen family was convicted. She became the lowest handyman slave in the Jiaofang Department, but she always hid the half-volume "Xiang Cheng Supplement" left by her mother and a complete set of tools for repairing ancient books.
- Personality: Cold and taciturn, deft and careful, he seems to be resigned, but in fact he is extremely resilient. He believes that "craftsmanship is the foundation of a life", he is neither humble nor arrogant, and uses his ability to break the feudal rule that "carpenters have low status and women cannot work".
- Gold Finger/Core Advantages: 1. Fragrance: It can accurately identify the nature, flavor and age of hundreds of spices, reproduce lost ancient recipes, and produce balm and fragrant pills that have skin care, soothing, and even poison identification functions. You can identify people and things by their fragrance.
2. Restoration of ancient books: Master ancient techniques such as "gold inlaid with jade", "steaming and deacidification", etc., Which can repair mildewed, moth-eaten and burned fragments, and can also read hidden information from the handwriting and ink marks of the text on the fragments.
2. Male protagonist setting
- Identity: Xiao Jue, the seventh prince who was not favored by the court. Due to his low birth mother, he was regarded by court officials as "an idle prince with no power to compete for the throne". In fact, he was secretly investigating the "Old Palace Case" twenty years ago and needed clues related to ancient books and spices.
-Character: cold on the outside but hot on the inside, thoughtful. When they first met, he regarded the heroine as a useful craftsman, but he was impressed by her tenacity and talent in cooperation with her again and again, and became her ally to break the shackles of class. The two powers joined forces to achieve each other's achievements.
