[Female Lead, Male Lead] [Has an Ex-Husband] [Older Woman/Younger Man Romance] [Strongly Growing Female Lead] [Insecure at First, Confident Later] [The Husband Chases His Wife to the Crematorium]
Shi Manxiang felt that luck had never been on her side.
The day she got divorced, she lost her divorce certificate.
Someone smashed up her shop and falsely accused her of wrongdoing.
When she went to the hospital to seek a reconciliation, she even ran into her philandering ex-husband there for treatment.
And people kept playing her for a fool.
Because of the divorce certificate, she met Yun Yi.
The man who would entangle himself with her for the rest of her life.
Her shop was wrecked, and her incense-making career hit rock bottom.
To pass down 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 the path of restoring incense.
Yun Yi had deliberately approached Shi Manxiang to obtain a long-lost secret method for making ancient Tibetan incense. He spun one lie after another, only to fall for her more deeply each time.
Just as he was ready to turn back and start over with Shi Manxiang, his lies were exposed. After one night of passion with him, Shi Manxiang vanished without a trace.
Looking back,
they had explored the spiritual path of incense at Songzanlin Monastery in Shangri-La,
held hands beneath the witness of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan,
and said farewell beneath Tibet's starry skies, their hearts entwined.
Then,
they met again among blue bricks and white-tiled walls.
Five years later,
Shi Manxiang held an umbrella over Yun Yi, who stood drenched at her doorway, and watched his eyes turn red.
"Yun Yi, I loved you with a passion as fierce as burning incense, but when the incense is gone, it's gone."
"We can never go back."