When Shen Lingyi married into the Gu family, everyone said that she was an abandoned child who was pushed out by the Shen family.
On her wedding night, she stayed alone in the empty room, but she smelled two things in the fragrance of medicine that filled the room: her husband's illness was fake, and the old fragrance wafting from the depths of the Gu family's ancestral hall was exactly the same as the incense recipe left by her aunt.
Gu Xun appears weak and polite in front of others, but in fact he has been secretly investigating the cause of his father's death for seventeen years. He thought that the person who got married was an informant installed by the Shen family, but gradually he discovered that this excessively quiet bride was closer to the truth than anyone in the Gu family.
A broken contract, a wisp of old fragrance, a feud that has been tampered with for forty years.
She pretended to be good, and he pretended to be sick.
She knew it was a lie that he was sick, and he knew that it was a lie that she was good.
Neither of them revealed it.
Until the old covenant was torn apart and the poisonous fragrance was exposed to blood, all the hatred that had been worshiped by the family for many years turned out to be based on a lie.
