After Humiliating the Male Lead with the Bewitching Fragrance

(Next book: After Ordinary Me Got a Special Bewitching Fragrance)

Gu Xingzhi is the heir of the Marquis of Beiding, a noble beyond Xueling’s reach in this lifetime.

She never imagined that someone as ordinary as herself would become entangled with Gu Xingzhi.

Not long ago, while making her rounds to sound the night watch, she had knelt humbly before his sedan chair and begged him to forgive her unintentional offense.

Then, on the night she returned from her rounds, she pushed open her courtyard gate and saw the man who had recently been as remote as snow on a distant mountain lying in her shabby yard. His long hair was black, his skin white as luminous jade, and an alluring fragrance wafted from his whole body, as though Heaven were rewarding her for years of poverty.

A dark thought surged out from the depths of her heart in the night.

Hide him away.

Hide him in the bedroom where the rain leaked through the roof.

Like keeping a dog.

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This life continued until someone found her and asked her to marry in another woman’s place, becoming the second wife of an old widower. The old man had only one breath left.

After twenty years of hardship, a fortune had suddenly fallen into her lap. Naturally, she agreed.

On the day of the wedding.

Xueling had long since forgotten the man she had used and then discarded. Sitting in the bridal sedan, she was filled with happy dreams, but it had not gone far when it suddenly stopped.

A faint fragrance drifted on the wind, leaving her limbs weak and her mouth dry before she could even think.

When a slender, deathly pale hand lifted the bright red curtain, the young man’s cool, ethereal face filled her vision.

Holding her trembling body, his beautiful pupils brimmed with an excitement that made her scalp crawl. Completely ignoring the fear and horror on her face, he said to her:

“Xueling, I finally found you. From now on, you’ll stay by my side forever.”

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Gu Xingzhi was born with a special constitution that gave off an intoxicating fragrance capable of making people lose their reason. Countless people had loved him and become infatuated with him over the years, even going so far as to kill one another.

He never imagined that someone would blindfold him and humiliate him with such lowly acts.

At first, he found it disgusting and maintained his cold, reserved composure.

Later, he began to look forward to it, to crave it. He would obediently sit in a cold, damp corner, clutching a rusty bell and waiting excitedly for her to come.

Then one day, she suddenly vanished.

She disappeared just when he needed her most, when he missed the warmth of her body most...

But it did not matter. He remembered every inch of her skin, every strand of her hair, every sound of her voice...

He would find her and hide her away. He would never abandon her carelessly as she had abandoned him.

He would love Xueling, love her, love her, love her, love her, love her...

(Reading guide

● Characters: ordinary human heroine VS top-tier incubus hero

● The heroine is an ordinary person, with flaws in her personality and a dark side. She finally gives in to her dark side for once, only to meet an even darker male lead and get completely outplayed.

● The heroine has the kind of looks that, with thick bangs, give her a dark, snake-like ghost-girl vibe. She is not ugly, just insecure.

● The male lead thinks differently from normal people. He can be very obedient, but also very obsessive. In short, he has serious issues. After the heroine saves him, he agrees to stay with her for a while, but then becomes addicted to it. He is the dark obsessive type you can’t get rid of.

● Regarding the bewitching fragrance, the male lead was raised as a human medicine to control others, which is why he has a special constitution.

● Both are each other’s first.

● More reading notes in the author’s note of Chapter One.

Blurb saved on 2025.2.22 and posted on Weibo.)

Coming Soon 1

After Toying with the Untouchable Beauty, He Became Addicted

Synopsis:

Zhu Yunsui has admired Wu Fengsheng for a long time. He is nobly born, handsome and graceful, a rare bright moon in the world, while she is plain and unremarkable.

She has appeared before him many times, and every time he looks at her with gentle eyes, making her heart race. At night, he fills each of her damp dreams.

At last, she works up the courage to confess her feelings.

The beautiful young man, as lovely as the moon, stands before her and gently asks, just as he always does, “Have we met?”

His words break her heart.

On the night she is rejected, Zhu Yunsui thinks alone for a long time. Perhaps she likes his face and his noble status. Maybe she should find a way to get him, and once she tires of him, she will stop wanting him.

To get him, Zhu Yunsui keeps watch for months. At last, she catches him when he is injured, knocks him unconscious, and poisons his eyes, the very eyes that said he had never met her.

She pretends to be his savior and takes him in.

But she expects payment for sheltering him. She will possess him, inside and out, whether he wants it or not.

Zhu Yunsui is happy during this time, but her happy days are too short.

The people looking for him arrive. In her panic, she accidentally pushes him into a rushing river. Watching the churning water swallow him, she feels such regret.

After grieving for a few days, Zhu Yunsui soon falls in love again, this time with another outstanding and handsome man.

Just as before, she keeps watch day and night, and once again gets the chance to pick up a bargain.

That day, she helps the man through the courtyard gate. Someone has been waiting for her inside for a long time.

The young man who should have fallen into the river stands in the courtyard, a piece of charcoal pinched between his fingers. The yellowed walls and the ground around him are densely covered with the words “Die, die, die, die...”

As if he does not see the fear in her eyes, he calmly draws the final stroke, then smiles and gives her a false look of regret.

“You’ve brought someone back again. Does he know what you’re like when you say you love me in bed? Now that you’ve brought him back, I suppose we’ll have to let him see how you’ve been loving me all this time.”

Wu Fengsheng is the only son of the eldest princess, born to privilege, and more handsome than anyone else in the world. He has always been surrounded by admiring gazes, but no one knows he has a strange illness: no one’s face stays in his memory for more than three breaths. No matter how many times he sees someone, he still cannot remember their face.

But one day, he goes blind.

A woman saves him. She coaxes and deceives him with nothing but lies, all to possess him. Once she has him, she tells him she loves him, then shoves him into a river.

As Wu Fengsheng climbs out of the river, soaked through, he thinks:

He will love her too, in her home, on the wooden bed where they rest, in the yellowed corner of the room...

He will love her, fiercely.

Characters: dark, passionate woman VS a heartless man who cannot recognize faces

Coming Soon 2

After Ordinary Me Got a Special Bewitching Fragrance

One-line premise: Is it all an illusion? Then it smells wonderful.

Characters: an unremarkable, dark little mouse VS all kinds of heavenly dragons

Keywords: ancient-world heavenly dragons, dark obsessives, adored by everyone

Theme: Love must not be betrayed.