A Killer's Nose for Scents

Tan Songling was twelve when her father died.

The scene was horrific. Her brother covered her eyes, and large tears poured into his palm, yet ripples of joy stirred in her heart.

That father should have died long ago. He was the one who drove her mother to her death.

Amid the smell of blood, she caught a faint, intoxicating fragrance.

It wasn't her brother's scent.

Later, the eldest daughter of the Tan family became famous for making fragrances. With scented balms and perfumes, alluring fragrances and deadly poisons, she single-handedly led the Tan family back to prosperity.

She had several brief affairs, but each one ended without explanation.

From time to time, she would catch that childhood fragrance on a different lover.

Of course, there were also moments when her life was in danger.

But before a blade could reach her throat, the assailant was already dead.

"Hey," Tan Songling lowered her eyes and ordered calmly, "come here."

"Who is the eldest miss talking to?" The servants in the fragrance workshop looked around.

His fan paused. The frail, handsome playboy's dark eyes flickered as he looked around too.

"I'm talking to you. Brother Yu, little brother Ying, top scholar Xie, General He..." Tan Songling lost patience. "Stop looking around. I mean you."

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As an assassin, Lu Shiyi is naturally decisive, cold, and ruthless.

But on that damp spring night, when the woman softly called him "General He," he couldn't help asking that foolish question again.

"Do you like me, eldest miss?" He brushed her hair aside and looked down at her. "Do you like me more than your previous men?" His tone was playful yet cool. "Like that top scholar, that illegitimate son..."

"Oh, I was only playing around with them." Tan Songling's eyes brimmed with affection. She smiled mischievously, her voice as sweet as honey. "I'm sincere with you, General."

He'd heard those words once before, when he was posing as the top scholar.

Lu Shiyi curled his lips into a smile, then turned his face away.

*A master of changing faces who loves putting on a show, assassin guy x an even better shapeshifter who loves watching him perform, wealthy merchant girl

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Reader's guide:

1. Childhood friends with a pseudo-sibling relationship. The male lead can disguise himself, is crazy and possessive, and spends the whole story jealous of himself.

2. The male lead has his reasons, and he's so deeply in love he can't help himself. So the heroine has several relationships with the male lead under different identities.

Inspired on April 10, 2025. Blurb written on July 24, 2025. Screenshots uploaded for proof.

Theme: Love can part the mist