The Fragrance of the Nation's Fairest

Wen Qianxue spent her whole life striving to come out on top, only to end up disgraced and die a wretched death in a private prison. Only at the very end did she learn that she was merely a vicious supporting character in a book, destined to serve as the heroine’s stepping stone and meet a miserable end. Given another life, Wen Qianxue overturns her fate. She doesn’t care about heroines or supporting characters. She believes only that her fate is hers to command, not Heaven’s! Everyone in Shengjing knows the Wen family’s legitimate daughter is useless, while their adopted daughter is renowned for her talent. She can’t hold a candle to her adopted sister. Yet this very girl, dismissed by the world, returns home from Jiangnan and reclaims control of the household. She creates perfumes and medicines, and her homemade medicinal cosmetics take Donglu by storm. From there, she rises ever higher... The heroine is at the end of her rope and turns to the hero for support. But when he sees Wen Qianxue, he greets her with the utmost respect, then turns to the guard she happened to pick up along the road and calls him Uncle Wang...