After My Divorce, I Turned My Life Around with Incense Making

[Female Lead Has Past Relationships + Male Lead Has an Ex-Wife + Older Woman/Younger Man Romance + Female Lead Grows Over Time + Insecure at First, Confident Later + Male Lead's Redemption Arc]

Shi Manxiang felt that nothing was going her way.

On the day of her divorce, she lost her divorce certificate.

Someone smashed up her shop and framed her for it.

When she went to the hospital to seek a settlement, she ran into her philandering ex-husband, who was there for treatment.

And people kept leading her around by the nose.

Because of the divorce certificate, she met Yun Yi.

The man who would become entangled with her for the rest of her life.

After her shop was wrecked, her incense-making career hit rock bottom.

To preserve the culture of Tibetan incense, and to keep her father's life's work from going to waste,

Shi Manxiang and Yun Yi embarked on a journey to master the art of incense-making.

Yun Yi deliberately approached Shi Manxiang to obtain a long-lost ancient Tibetan incense recipe. He spun one lie after another, yet fell for her again and again.

When he wanted to turn back and start over with Shi Manxiang, his lies were exposed. After one night of passion with him, Shi Manxiang disappeared without a trace.

Looking back,

they had explored the spiritual path of incense at Songzanlin Monastery in Shangri-La,

held hands with Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan, as their witnesses,

and parted beneath Tibet's starry skies, their hearts aching with longing.

Then,

they met again amid gray bricks and whitewashed walls.

Five years later,

Shi Manxiang held an umbrella over Yun Yi, who stood drenched in front of her door, and looked at his reddened eyes.

“Yun Yi, I loved you with a passion as intense as burning incense, but once the incense burns out, it's gone.”

“We can't go back.”