The Fragrance That Lures the Beijing Elite Circle

[Recognizing People by Scent x A Big Shot from Beijing's Elite Circle x A Mix of Sweetness and Angst x Revenge Power Fantasy]

Gu Nan Zhi has a special talent: one sniff tells her what you did yesterday.

Who lied, who has a secret, whose clothes carry another woman's perfume: she can smell it all.

To clear her father's name, she takes half a book of perfume recipes and storms into Wen He Lou, Kyoto's most exclusive private club, where she becomes its most unremarkable perfumer.

On her first day, she runs into the man no one in Beijing's elite circle dares to provoke: Third Master Shen.

They say he's cold-blooded, taciturn, and ruthless, and that one look from him can make all of Kyoto tremble.

But she smells it...

He carries her father's scent.

[He watched over her for twelve years, and she never knew]

The year her father died in prison, he was twenty years old. He knelt all night outside the Shen family shrine.

He locked away her father's incense in a cabinet, where it stayed for twelve years.

She grew up in Lanzhou, and every year he sent people to inquire after her.

The day she returned to Kyoto, he stood in the third-floor corridor and watched her enter Wen He Lou for an entire afternoon.

He thought he'd hidden it well.

Until one day, she caught his scent and asked through red-rimmed eyes, "Do you... know my father?"

[Three men go crazy for her]

The young marshal from a military family comes charging in, bristling as he tries to claim her: "She's mine!"

The gallery owner gently offers her a red envelope: "As long as you're doing well, that's all that matters."

Her childhood friend blocks the doorway with a smile that hides a knife: "I just want to see what kind of girl could win him over."

Third Master Shen's face darkens.

He pulls her behind him, his gaze cold enough to kill. "How dare you touch my woman?"