After Humiliating the Male Lead with the Bewitching Fragrance

(Currently serializing: The Plain Widow Possessed by a Transmigrated Man) Gu Xingzhi is the heir to the Marquis of Beiding, a noble far beyond Xue Ling’s reach. She never imagined that someone as ordinary as her would become entangled with Gu Xingzhi. Not long ago, while making her rounds and beating the night watchman’s clapper, she had humbly knelt in front of his sedan chair, begging him to forgive her inadvertent offense. But on the night she returned from her rounds, she opened her courtyard gate and found the man who had seemed as remote as snow on distant mountains lying in her ramshackle yard. His long hair was ink-black, his skin glowed white as jade, and a tempting fragrance clung to him. It was as if Heaven were rewarding her for all these years of poverty. A dark thought welled up from the depths of her heart. Hide him away. In her bedroom, where rainwater leaked through the roof. Like keeping a dog. - This went on until someone came to find her and asked her to take another woman’s place and marry an old widower as his second wife. The old man was already on his last breath. After twenty years of poverty, she naturally agreed when such incredible wealth fell into her lap. On her wedding day, Xue Ling had long since forgotten the man she had used and then discarded. She climbed into the bridal sedan chair, dreaming of a wonderful future, but it had barely gone any distance when it suddenly stopped. A faint fragrance drifted on the breeze, leaving her weak and making her mouth go dry without her meaning to. When a slender, cold-white hand lifted the bright red curtain, the young man’s ethereally beautiful face appeared right before her. He held her trembling body. His beautiful eyes shone with an excitement that made her scalp tingle. Ignoring the fear and horror on her face, he said, “Xue Ling, I’ve finally found you. From now on, you’ll stay by my side forever.” - Gu Xingzhi was born with a rare constitution that exudes a bewitching fragrance, driving people to lose their reason. Over the years, countless people have loved and obsessed over him, even turning on one another. He never imagined anyone would blindfold him and humiliate him in such a degrading way. At first, he was disgusted and maintained his aloof composure. Later, he began to anticipate it, to crave it. He would obediently sit in a cold, damp corner, gripping a rusty bell and waiting excitedly for her to come. Then one day, she suddenly disappeared. Just when he needed her most, when he missed the warmth of her body most... she was gone. But it doesn’t matter. He remembers every inch of her skin, every strand of her hair, her voice... He’ll find her and keep her hidden away. He won’t casually abandon her like she abandoned him. He’ll love Xue Ling, love her, love her, love her, love her, love her... (Reading guide ● Characters: ordinary heroine vs. top-tier incubus hero ● The heroine is an ordinary person with flaws and a dark side. The one time she finally gives in to her darker impulses, she meets an even darker hero, and it all goes spectacularly wrong ● The heroine has the sort of looks that, with thick bangs, make her seem like a gloomy snake-like ghost. She isn’t ugly, just insecure ● The hero thinks nothing like a normal person. He can be very obedient but also very obsessive. In short, he’s seriously messed up. After the heroine saves him, he agrees to stay with her for a while, then gets hooked. He’s a dark, clingy obsessive she can’t get rid of ● His bewitching scent comes from being raised as a human test subject to control others, which gave him his unusual constitution ● Both are each other’s first ● More reading guidance in the author’s note for chapter one Synopsis saved on 2025.2.22 and posted on Weibo) Coming Soon 1 After Toying with the High-and-Mighty Beauty, He Became Addicted Synopsis: Zhu Yunsui has been in love with Wu Fengsheng for a long time. He is noble by birth and handsome enough to turn heads, a rare bright moon of a man, while she is plain and unremarkable. She has appeared before him many times. Each time, he looks at her with gentle eyes that make her heart pound, and he fills her damp dreams night after night. At last, she gathers the courage to confess her feelings. The beautiful young man, as lovely as the moon, stands before her and asks gently, as he always does, “Have we met before?” His words break her heart. The night she is rejected, Zhu Yunsui spends a long time thinking it over alone. Perhaps she only likes his face and his noble status. Maybe she needs to find a way to get him, and once she grows tired of him, she’ll stop wanting him. To get him, Zhu Yunsui stakes out his path for months. At last, when he is injured, she knocks him out and poisons the eyes that claimed not to know her. She pretends to be his savior and takes him in. And she expects payment for taking him in: she intends to possess him, inside and out, whether he wants it or not. Zhu Yunsui is happy during this time, but her happiness doesn’t last long. The people searching for him arrive. In her panic, she accidentally pushes him into a raging river. Watching the churning water swallow him, she feels terribly sorry. After a few days of grief, Zhu Yunsui soon falls in love again, this time with another outstandingly handsome man. Just as before, she stakes out his path day and night until another opportunity falls into her lap. That day, she helps the man through her courtyard gate, where someone has been waiting for her for a long time. The young man who was supposed to have drowned stands in the courtyard, a piece of charcoal pinched between his fingers. The yellowing walls and the ground around him are covered in rows upon rows of the word “Die, die, die, die...” As if he doesn’t see the terror in her eyes, he calmly draws the final stroke and smiles, offering her a false show of regret. “You brought someone else home again. Does he know how you look when you tell me you love me in bed? Now that you’ve brought him here, 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 a life of privilege and blessed with beauty seldom seen in this world. He has always been surrounded by adoring gazes, but no one knows about his strange affliction. No matter how many times he sees someone, their face remains in his memory for no more than three breaths. Then one day, he went blind. A woman rescued him. She coaxed and deceived him with one falsehood after another, all to possess him. After getting what she wanted, she told him she loved him, then shoved him into a river. As Wu Fengsheng crawls out of the river, soaked to the bone, he thinks: He will love her, too, in their home, on that wooden daybed, in the yellowing corner of the room... He will love her fiercely. Characters: dark, passionate woman vs. a face-blind man with a wicked heart Coming Soon 2 After an Ordinary Me Gets a Special Bewitching Incense One-line synopsis: Is it all just an illusion? Then it sure smells good. Characters: an utterly unremarkable, gloomy little mouse vs. a host of royal princes and nobles Keywords: ancient-world influencers, gloomy obsessives, everyone falls for her Theme: Love should never be betrayed