After three years of marriage into the Earl of Cheng’en’s household, Shen Zhiwei had used her dowry to plug financial holes and prop up her mother-in-law’s image. In return, her husband brought his cousin into the residence and even forced her to hand over the incense workshop her mother had left behind.
On a snowy night at the ancestral shrine, she threw down the storeroom keys in front of everyone and signed a divorce agreement, cutting all ties cleanly.
Everyone waited to see her fall into ruin, but she reopened her old shop with a book called Fragrance Recipes for the Four Seasons. She went from selling sachets on the street to supplying incense to the palace, leaving those who had once tormented her unable even to reach her doorstep.
Her former husband finally came begging her to return, eyes red, but the man at her side personally draped a princess’s wedding robes over her shoulders.
Then, on the eve of their wedding, the Regent sent her a contract: the prince’s estate would be hers to manage, and so would he.
But on the wedding day, her former husband knelt in the middle of the main street and produced the real evidence behind Shen Zhiwei’s mother’s death…
