The Lush Beauty’s Natural Scent Captivates the Ascetic Prince

[Historical romance with angst and pampering + unhinged prince + medicinal fragrance constitution + refugee girl + possessiveness + chasing his wife]

Everyone in the capital says that Xiao Yanqing, the all-powerful Prince Jing’an, suffers from a mysterious ailment and loathes the scent of women. Anyone who comes near him is killed without mercy.

Jiang Suining is just a lowly apprentice apothecary who fled famine and sneaked into the prince’s residence to avoid being sold off by her own father. She plans to keep her head down, save up, and buy her freedom. But after she finally gets a good meal, she discovers that her body gives off a strangely sweet medicinal fragrance.

That scent becomes the only antidote for the unhinged prince.

A consort poisons and bullies her? A noblewoman schemes against her? Her bloodsucking scumbag of a father comes looking for her? She doesn’t need to lift a finger. The cold-faced prince, rumored to have no interest in women, turns the entire residence upside down and crushes everyone who has ever bullied her.

Until one day, Jiang Suining has saved enough silver and packs her belongings, ready to run.

But the tall man locks the door behind her. His eyes bloodshot, he pins her firmly against the medicine couch and says in a hoarse, frenzied voice, “Ningning, my life is tied to yours. Where do you think you’re running?”