Jasmine Fragrance

A cool, aloof, dark-hearted little enchantress vs. a disciplined, restrained, noble, warm-hearted monk

[Rich-family melodrama / marriage first, love later / marriage of convenience / mutual healing / regretful pursuit of his wife / untouchable high-born beauty / the ultimate in celibacy]

1.

Just after burning incense and stepping out of the temple, Li Hanyun met the perfect man: gentle and refined, like a moon high in the sky, a god of celibacy.

Li Hanyun: "Buddha, you're really effective!"

But on their wedding night, as they were about to consummate the marriage, he said in a gloomy voice, "You can enjoy anything in this household as you please. But you have no right to enjoy me!"

On their wedding night, he said he was going to become a monk! Yes, shave his head and become a monk!

He looked like a celibate type, and now he really was celibate inside and out.

Li Hanyun: "Buddha, you set me up?!"

Shen Chuan: "To make it up to you, you can enjoy any of my worldly possessions as you please. I won't limit how much you spend!"

He assumed she loved money. She didn't correct him. She did love him, but not that much...

Li Hanyun told herself: It's only three months. How much could I love him?

Right after getting married, she was living the lavish, extravagant life of a wealthy widow,

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But she never expected that he had become a monk for a woman!

And the wife he had married and left alone at home was nothing but a stand-in!

Li Hanyun: "I thought you were cold and heartless, devoted only to vegetarianism and prayer, but it turns out you have a white moonlight in your heart. And in the most melodramatic twist of all, your white moonlight wants you to attend her engagement party?!"

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In black suits and white dresses, they pretended to be a loving couple. She hooked her hand around his arm and gracefully accompanied him to his white moonlight's engagement party. Standing beside him, she vowed to help him win back his white moonlight.

But she never expected Shen Chuan to say to the stand-in beside him, "My wife is wonderful in every way. She's gentle, generous, virtuous, and dignified. I was wrong to neglect her for so long. After a year of quiet cultivation at the temple, I've thought many things through. So, for her sake, I'm going to return to secular life."

Li Hanyun: "What the heck? What kind of plot is this?"

2.

In his eyes, she was like a jasmine flower trapped in mist and rain, surrounded by poetry.

She certainly had a poetic air, but he thought what she needed was warmth! The kind of warmth that comes from being cherished.

It took everyone a long time to realize that the one who brought the untouchable high-born beauty down from her pedestal wasn't a dazzling red rose, but that pure white jasmine!

[Reading Guide:]

1. There is no stand-in plot from beginning to end. The guy just doesn't know how to communicate.

2. Museum tour guide x rich young heir

"You became a monk for her, and returned to secular life for me! Shen Chuan, you're a truly top-tier scumbag!"

Li Hanyun: "You're a block of ice that's been cold for ten thousand years, a tree that hasn't flowered in a thousand. You're destined to die alone!"

Shen Chuan: "But you don't know that ice can melt and iron trees can bloom. Love is hard to explain, but once it begins, it runs deep..."

Theme: Love can't pretend not to hear