Yongchang three years, Bianjing.
Shen Qingwu has been selling flowers at Tianshui Lane for seven years. No one knew that this thin girl with her fingers wrapped in coarse cloth could tell the year of origin of agarwood by just a hint of its smell. No one even knew that she was the eldest concubine of Pingninghou Mansion who "died" fourteen years ago.
In an accident, her ability to "investigate things" was noticed by the spice shop owner of Pingninghou Mansion. In order to collect money for medicine for his seriously ill adoptive mother, Shen Qingwu worked in a shop as a men's clothing worker, stepping into the undercurrent of Bianjing's fragrant medicine industry. At that time, Dayan's spice business was monopolized by three major business gangs, and the Hou Mansion's affiliates were eyeing it. If she wanted to survive, she had to start from the bottom as a perfume dryer and work her way up step by step.
And Xie Lanchen, the young master of the Hou family who once bought her plum blossoms at the alley, was the only one who could see through her disguise. He didn't expose it, but instead threw a "chess piece" - "Check out a bad debt for me, and I will help you deal with someone's troubles."
When Shen Qingwu took over the chess piece, he had no idea that this would be the beginning of a reshuffle of the Bianjing spice market. And she didn't even know that this seemingly dissolute young prince was tired of being the family's puppet.
One wants to take back his life, and the other wants to break free from the prison. Two people struggling in their own quagmire decided to be each other's "accomplices".
What she wants is not revenge, but equality. What he wants is not power, but freedom of choice.
When the "incense genius" who was born in the market met the "chess genius" who defected from the Hou family, a reshaping of spices, people's hearts and order quietly began amidst the endless sound of flower sellers in Bianjing City in the morning and dusk.
