The Graceful Lady: Fragrance Born of Bewitching Charm

She was a modern business queen. After transmigrating, she became a dirt-poor country girl in the Great Yan dynasty. The elders in the household bullied and oppressed her, and the villagers pointed and whispered, all because everyone condemned the unfilial. Her father was honest and kind, her mother was gravely ill, and her baby brother was starving and gaunt. Zhou Mei thought she could handle all that. After all, she was a business tycoon who could turn rot into wonder. After eight years of hard work, she went from having nothing to possessing countless treasures and riches. Before she could truly enjoy her success and arrange a fine match for herself, a bombshell identity came to light. She was the Marquis of Chengbei’s illegitimate niece. The Chengbei Marquis household, an aristocratic family with a long and distinguished history, looked glorious from the outside but had long since rotted within. At the top was her grandfather, a hypocrite who wore benevolence like a mask, and her step-grandmother, kind on the surface but vicious inside. Below them were all sorts of troublesome uncles and aunts, extravagant young masters and young ladies, and her only maternal uncle, whose stepmother had crippled both his legs. Surrounded by enemies, he’d even had his position as heir stolen and could barely survive in the household. Zhou Mei sneered. They expected her to hand over her money willingly, with this kind of family? Did they think she was some saintly Bodhisattva? It’s easy to invite the Buddha in but hard to send him away. Since they insisted on provoking her, she didn’t mind playing along to the very end. She could heal her uncle’s leg with skilled, compassionate hands, without anyone noticing. She could also be merciless, making sure the wicked were left unable to defend themselves. And she could show no mercy to her own relatives: anyone who bullied her family would have their entire household buried with them, never to be reborn. Little did she know that, while she was thriving, a scheming, black-hearted wolf had already tucked her away in his heart. A devoted one-on-one romance. The male lead is pure in body and heart.