Destined Marriage with Fragrance - Chapter CHRs

Characters List

Murong Shu Qing – The current Murong’s family Master and our female lead, aka Bai Yi Fan from the modern time. Bai Yi Fan is 29 years old while Murong Shu Qing is only 19 years old. Murong Shu Qing is technically the second daughter, but since the old MSQ is a bully and the fact that Murong Wan Ru is a daughter of the second wife, MSQ is called the eldest daughter of the Murong’s family even though MWR is older.

Xuanyuan Yi – One of the 3 male leads. Dong Yu’s Famous General. Murong Shu Qing’s former fiancé and he was the one who came to break the wedding agreement.

Mo Can – Second male lead. He’s a hit-man. MSQ met him during a trip to the Capital when he was chased by a bunch of bodyguards so he took hostage & injured MSQ but MSQ ended up helping him.

Xian Yi aka Xuan Tian Cheng aka the current Emperor of Dong Yu – Third and last potential male lead. He was interested with Xi Lie Yue aka Hai Yue first before MSQ kept showing up in front of him and made him interested with her unique personalities. He visited Feng Qing Lou brothel. If it wasn’t because of Huo Zhi Qing’s impetuous bidding for 10,000 taels, this Xian Yi would have won Hai Yue at 7,000 taels.

Pei Che’s – Xuanyuan Yi’s good friend. He is a military counselor for Dong Yu’s army.

Tang Xiao Xiao – MSQ’a friend and Shen Xiao Yun’s wife who is childish, hot-tempered and easy to be jealous. She’s a Jiang Hu’s person. She has a skill to change her or anybody’s appearances. She’s the only disciple of this teacher called “Thousand Guanyn’s faces.” The skill to change one’s appearance is called Yi Rong Shu.

Shen Xiao Yun – He is the owner of Feng (wind) Yu (rain) Lou (building). A very famous Jiang Hu’s person who works to collect and sold the news from around the world. He actually works for MSQ & is Tang Xiao Xiao’s husband.

Bai’s family: (modern family of the original soul that went to MSQ’s body due to an ancient bracelet).

Bai Xi Fan – Bai Yi Fan’s second older brother. He owns an advertising company.

Bai Pu Fan – Bai Yi Fan’s oldest brother. He owns a marketing company.

Qin Zheng – Bai Pu Fan’s girl friend.

Fang Fei Qing – Bai Yi Fan’s mother.

Bai Chu Yan – Bai Yi Fan’s father.

Bai Jing Yang – Bai Yi Fan’s paternal grandfather. 

Murong’s family: (rules 1/3 in the east and south areas of Dong Yu). At first, they mostly own rice & grain shops and restaurants & inns, then she expanded to open clothing business to compete with the Fu’s family.

Zi Yuan – Murong Shu Qing’s maidservant #1.

Lu Yi – Murong Shu Qing’s maidservant #2.

Hong Xiu – Murong Shu Qing’s maidservant #3.

Murong Xiang – Murong Shu Qing’s father.

Murong Xing Hun – Murong Shu Qing’s younger brother. He is 12 years old.

Murong Xing Yue – Murong Shu Qing’s youngest sister. She is 3 years old.

Zhao Ling Long – Murong Xiang’s concubine. She used to work at a brothel before becoming a concubine.

Master Feng aka Feng Qi Xuan – He works at the stable at Murong’s manor and is teaching Murong Xing Hun how to ride a horse. He’s a martial art expert.

Feng Yi (his title is Guan Shi, equals to a manager) – He works for Murong Shu Qing. He is responsible for all of the Murong family’s stores. He is about 40 years old.

Mrs. Luo Yun – Her two disciples work for MRSQ’s clothing store called Su Ni Chang. These two apprentices are the best in stitching/embroidering and dying clothes.

Qiu Yu – One of Mrs. Luo Yun’s disciple who works for Su Ni Chang. He’s an expert in embroidery. He’s a big man but able to do a meticulous embroidery. He’s a younger schoolmate of Qin Fu (Shi Di).

Qin Fu – Another of of Mrs. Luo Yun’s disciple who also works at Su Ni Chang. She’s an expert in dying colors. She looks sweet, beautiful and is a skinny lady. She’s Qiu Yu’s Shi Jie.

Murong Wan Ru – Murong Shu Qing’s elder sister. Murong Xiang’s first daughter. She is married off to the Li family’s son. Li Dong Ming is her father in law. Li Zhong Wen is her husband (in Ch 15).

Li Zhong Wen – Murong Wan Ru’s repulsive husband. He bullied her when she couldn’t get pregnant. MSQ calls him a lounge lizard.

Yun Pei Hua – Murong Xiang’s second wife. Mother of Murong Wan Ru. She is actually the eldest daughter of the Murong’s family but since her mother is only a second wife, her status is actually much lower than Murong Shu Qing who is a daughter from the first wife.

Xiao Chan – Murong Wan Ru’s maidservant.

Bing Po – aka Ice Soul. Murong Shu Qing’s horse.

Physician Tao – Murong family’s doctor.

Ch 12 – It was mentioned that Murong Shu Qing has one elder brother. He was 24 years old (Ch 34.2), however he doesn’t live in the Murong family’s manor. He returned to his mother family’s manor in the capital when he was 16 years old. Her brother name is Qi Rui. He took his mother’s family name.

Yan Yu – MSQ’s bodyguard #1.

Cang Su – MSQ’s bodyguard #2.

Fan Feng – MSQ’s bodyguard #3. A younger guy who was raised by Yan Yu & Cang Su.

Uncle Xue – Murong family’s head housekeeper.

Government Officials;

Li Jing Jia aka Li Daren – The government official’s head merchant who is in charge in Zi City where the flooding happens.

Rong De Ren aka Rong Daren – The government official who is in charge in the Huadu district. He was a favorite student of the former Prime Minister Qi, who is MSQ’s maternal grandfather.

Magistrate Wang – the government official who is in charge in doing inspection of a district.

Lin Hang aka Lin Daren – The Elderly Man who showed up and came with Rong De Ren to Master Fu’s birthday party in Ch 20. He’s about 50 years old. He is the Chief Weaving Division who is responsible for the Imperial brocade competition. 

Master of Government Office – He is in charge at the Yamen (government office) when they announced the winner of the Imperial brocade competition.

Fu’s family: (rules 1/3 in the east and south sides of Dong Yu). Fu family’s business is in clothing. His business used to win the Imperial brocade competition for the last five years until MSQ started a clothing business about two years ago.

Fu Bo Wen – the Master and owner of clothing business called Cai Yun Fang.

Fu Ming Shuang – Fu Bo Wen’s only daughter. She seems to have intentions to capture An Qin Xuan’s heart. Her father is trying to “give away” this daughter of his to either one of the An family’s brothers also.

An’s family: (rules 1/3 in the east and south sides of Dong Yu). Not sure what business the An’s family has at this point.

An Qin Xuan – eldest son. He’s described to have an evil charmed and a player (playboy). Not sure at this point if he’s a friend or an enemy or a frenemy of MSQ. 

An Qin Yu – second son.

Yi Niang – A courtesan from Yi Cui Hong Yi that is owned by the An’s family?

Huo’s family: (rules in the north side of Dong Yu). The Huo’s family started as a horse breading family so all of the kids have affinities with horses.

Huo Zi Qi – eldest son. He’s supposed to look stylish. 30 plus years.

Huo Zi Xi – second son. He’s about 30 years old.

Huo Zhi Qing – youngest daughter. She’s about 15 years old. She likes MSQ jiejie but gets her in trouble more often because of her short temper. She’s trying to make MSQ to like her eldest brother.

Yan Hao Yu – Not sure who he is as his surname is different from the Huo’s family. He has a gentle temperament with a normal face. Huo Zhi Qing seems to like him.

Yi’s family: (they own an armed escort company and live in the south capital. MSQ has some business dealings with them)

Yi Yun Shu – I’m guessing he’s the eldest son of the Yi’s family. He’s good friends with XY & Pei Che. He’s married to Yu Qian. She’s from the Yu’s family in Jiang Nan.

Yi Yun Xin – Yi Yun Shu’s younger sister. She seems to like XY. She’s about 15-16 years old.

Yu Qian – Yu Yun Shu’s new bride. She’s from an area called Jiang Nan and her family is supposed to be famous for making top quality swords and has 2 other sisters. These three sisters are supposed to be outstanding beauties.

Yan Rui Country’s Imperial family: 

Hong Fei – the Crown Prince.

Prince Rong – his title is a Qin Wang which is the highest title for a male sibling/cousin of the Emperor.

Hong Song – 4th Prince.

Hong Ming – 7th Prince. MSQ seems to be afraid of him & she thinks he’ll get the throne as he has a lot of Jiang Hu’s people who support him to be the next Emperor. He won the throne & became the new Yan Rui’s Emperor. He schemed to align with Cang Yue to get rid of MSQ. While Cang Yue started the war with Dong Yu, Hong Ming was scheming behind the scene by burning the army provisions & trying to kill MSQ if she doesn’t stand on his side.

Qi’s family: (MSQ’s maternal side of the family. They live in the Capital)

Qi Rui – MSQ’s elder brother who lives in the capital at her mother family’s manor when he was 16 years old. He’s 24 years old. A secret why his last name is Qi and not Murong was because he was a son of Qi Yue and another guy whom Qi Yue loved so much. But he ended up breaking her heart due to his fear of marrying the doted daughter of the Prime Minister.

Qi Zhong Lin – He was the former Prime Minister – MSQ’s maternal grandfather. He is about 70 years old. He was barely 20 years old when he helped the former Emperor to be the Emperor and the youngest PM in Dong Yu’s history.

He Xiang Jun – MSQ’s maternal grandmother. She is Qi Yue’s mother. She really dotes on MSQ.

Qi Yue – MSQ’s mother. She is the only daughter of the former PM Qi. She has one older & one younger brothers (Ch 35). She has a secret. She fell in love with another talented man & was willing to elope to marry him but because of the high position that her father had, he did not want to marry her and decided to go away while Qi Yue was already pregnant. Thus, she was married off so quickly to Murong Xiang. 

Qi Yun – Qi Yue’s Eldest brother. MSQ’s big uncle. He’s a supervisor for the Ministry of Revenue.

Wu Mei – Qi Yun’s wife. MSQ’s Big Aunt.

Qi Yu – Qi Yue’s second brother. MSQ’s small uncle. He is a general and has been protection the border at the East China Sea. Please know that the Yu in Qi Yu’s name is different than Yu in Qi Yu’s Qi Yun’s small daughter below. This Yu means rain, while the Yu in his niece’s name means jade.

Dong Ruo Xue – Qi Yu’s wife. She’s a famous and number one martial art beauty. Her famous weapon is an 8 meter white thin silk.

Qi Yu – Qi Yun’s young daughter or MSQ’s young cousin. She’s about 9 yo. This Yu means jade, while the Yu from her small uncle’s name means rain.

Qi Feng Xian – MSQ’s older male cousin. He was mentioned slightly in Ch 35 as her Feng Xian biao ge (older cousin from maternal side of family). He’s Qi Yun & Wu Mei’s oldest son.

Qi Feng Zhuo – Another MSQ’s young cousin. He’s about 9 yo also & the youngest son of MSQ’s small uncle.

Qi Feng Hua – Qi Yu & Dong Ruo Xue’s oldest son & Qi Feng Zhuo’s elder brother. He’s been living with her mom’s teacher since he was born & would not return until he turns 18 yo, which should be this year. 

Yu Shan – The Qi family’s Head housekeeper. 

Yi Yong – A young servant boy who works at the Qi’s family.

Fei-er – The Qi family’s servant.

Xin-er – The Qi’s family servant.

Jing Shui – MSQ’s servant at Die Cui Xiao Su. She’s been taking care of that courtyard for all her life. She’s pretty but has a birth mark on the left side of her face. Qi Rui actually likes her & she also likes him but she has never agreed to marry him as she doesn’t think she’s good enough for him.

Master Wu Jing – The man whom Qi Yue fell in love with on Lingshan mountain. He was also Qi Rui’s biological father even though he might not know that Qi Yue was already pregnant when he left her. He was also a talented man just like Qi Yue but he had no self esteemed due to Qi Yue’s Family prestigious background.

Yi Zhong – One of the Qi’s family bodyguard, who accompanied MSQ when she was strolling around the Capital per her grandmother’s order.

People from the Capital:

Li You Yu – The middle daughter of Ministry of Revenue, Li Shi Lang. MSQ meets her during a journey to the Capital & she seems to like Huo Zi Qi.

Tan Rui – He works for MSQ and is a manager at the stores at the Capital. He was about 30 years old. He has a normal face but an outstanding voice (according to MSQ). 

Hai Yue – A mystery courtesan who works at Qing Feng Lou (a famous brothel at the Capital). 

Feng Momo (elderly lady appellation) aka Feng Xi Wu – A lady who works at Qing Feng Lou. She’s probably the lady boss and is about 30 years old.

Qin Shu – MSQ’s alternative name when she pretended to be a man to go to a brothel where she met Hai Yue.

Bi Xu Sheng – The current Prime Minister of Dong Yu.

Chu Yin aka Demonic Physician. A famous but mysterious Jiang Hu’s figure who is known to have excellent medical skills but is a ruthless person. He was the one who brought up Mo Can after his mom passed away. He wants MSQ to follow him so he can teach her all his skills as he likes her intelligent. He was in love with Mo Can’s mother who was his younger sister from the same Master but she ended up falling in love with another man, had Mo Can & was killed by someone.

Xuanyuan’s Family: (First General in Dong Yu)

Dong Xue – XY’s childhood friend. They grew up together as she is his wet nurse’s daughter. She seemed to like him. She’s described as gentle and pretty. Originally, XY wanted to take her as his side concubine but…

Song Ling Qiu – XY’s mother and Qi Yue’s best friend. She & Qi Yue arranged the marriage agreement between MSQ & XY. She’s a cool lady and liked to travel when she was young. She was the famous & talented daughter from the Song’s family when she was young. She actually thought that the previous MSQ was adorable and lively. But she loves the current MSQ even more.

Mu Hai – Not sure if he’s a bodyguard at Xuanyuan’s manor or a head housekeeper but he was the one who refused to allow the Princess to go to XY’s courtyard.

Dong Yu’s Imperial Family:

Princess Chu Qing – The youngest sister of the current Emperor. She also likes XY and is the typical annoying princess who thinks if she likes a person, then that person should like her back. 

Gu Qian Yun – the current Empress Dowager, the mother of Princess Chu Qing & the current Emperor and Xuan Tian Xing. She, Song Ling Qiu & Qi Yue are best friends.

Xuan Tian Xing – aka Prince Rong Ning. The current Emperor’s younger brother and Princess Chu Qing’s second brother. He went to Qing Feng Lou with the Huo’s family.

Xian Yi aka Xuan Tian Cheng – The alias that the current Emperor of Dong Yu was using while he was trying to get closed to Hai Yue aka Xi Lie Yue. He ended up liking MSQ in the process. He visited Feng Qing Lou brothel. If it wasn’t because of Huo Zhi Qing’s impetuous bidding for 10,000 taels, this Xian Yi would have won Hai Yue at 7,000 taels.

Wei Hai – Xian Yi’s bodyguard who followed him around while he was traveling out of the Imperial palace.

Tong Fu – Xuan Tian Cheng’s lead palace eunuch.

ZhongYan – The Emperor’s secret bodyguard. He’s a secret power for Xuan Tian Cheng who’s good in tracking the assassins. 

Qiu Rong – The Empress Dowager’s trusted maid.

Fang Tong – One of the official from the Imperial court that is sent to Lin Feng Guan border to deal with Cang Yue’s surrender.

Imperial Physician Lin – The lead Imperial physicians in the palace.

XYC’s harem:

Empress, Bi Xin Sui – her son, Hao-er is almost 1 year old. He’s a second prince, but most likely a future crown prince.

Imperial concubine Shu (Fei rank) – her son is the first prince.  

Imperial concubine De (Fei rank)

Imperial concubine Leng (Fei rank)

Imperial concubine Rong (Pin rank) – she has 2 daughters but her family background isn’t high.

Imperial concubine Dong (Pin rank)

Imperial concubine Liu (Pin rank) – aka Liu Li Shuang, she actually considered herself to be working for MSQ as MSQ helped her & her parents in the past. She helped MSQ when MSQ was in the palace. Her dad was an assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Concubine Hui (Zhaoyi rank)

Concubine Yan (Zhaoyi rank)

Concubine Wu (Jieyu rank)

Concubine Xin (Jieyu rank)

Concubine Li (Meiren rank)

Cang Yue – One of the 3 countries bordering with Dong Yu:

You Xiao – General of Cang Yue. He’s the leading general who goes to war with Dong Yu.

Su Qing – A Jiang Hu person who is actually working for Yan Rui’s Hong Ming. He tried to kill MSQ by making her fall off the cliffs. He also injured Shang Jun while she was trying to investigate about the battle arrays.

Yu Bo Ya – A guqin player who played a Gao Shan Liu Shui song (song of the high mountain & flowing water).

Zhong Zi Qi – A woodcutter who could understand Yu Bo Ya’s artistic mood. These two people became best friends and when ZZQ’s death, YBY never played another song again.

Hai Yu’s Imperial Family:

Hai Yue aka Xi Lie Yue – The future heir to the throne. Hai Yu is a mysterious country that puts a woman at the highest respect. She pretended to be a courtesan at Feng Qing Lou brothel.

Qin Xiu Zhi – A mysterious person whom MSQ met at Yi Yun Shu’s wedding. He happens to be one of the male leads in book 2 of the series. The books title is Destined Marriage of Shang Jun. He’s Xi Lie Yue’s half brother (same mom but different father). LXY is trying to matchmake him with MSQ.

Yan Song – XLY’s personal maid who is known as a red dress woman through out most of the chapters. XLY calls her Yan.

Xi Mu – Qin Xiu Zhi’s head bodyguard.

Xiao Jin – A 13-14 year old servant boy who was serving MSQ when she was hurt and staying with QXZ.

A mysterious man who looked like a beggar whom MSQ met on the way to Ling Feng Guan border. He was the one who diagnosed that Lu Yi was poisoned with a fascinated poison. He also could see that there were two souls in MSQ’s body, one is fated to be a Phoenix (Empress) and the other one is fated to be an official such as a PM.

Dong Yu’s Armies:

Li Ming – One of the Generals for Dong Yu. He has a bad impression on MSQ as he saw the old MSQ once.

Xiao Rong aka Fang Rong – A young soldier who is usually the go between person between Pei Che & MSQ whenever he wants to call MSQ to discuss the army matters.

Lei Yi – An older General for Dong Ayu. He’s about 50 years old and as been guarding Lin Feng Guan border. He was injured and saved by Shang Jun once.

General Huang aka Huang Xi Feng – The General who escorted the army provisions during the battle between Dong Yu & Cang Yue. Another temperament General…

General Wang aka Wang Shao – A Deputy General who lead the army outside of the battle arrays.

Zhan Hun – Xuanyuan Yi’s war horse.

People who works for MSQ family’s businesses around the country:

Zhou Jing – He is the Shopkeeper (manager) responsible for the businesses in Cheng Du city. More than 30 years old. He has a wife and baby daughter. His wife used to be a courtesan. His wife’s name is Jing Mu. MSQ named his daughter Zhou Ruo Shui.

Piao Miao (Misty) Manor:

Shang Jun – Another MSQ’s BFF. She was originally one of the generals from Cang Yue as her father was the first General there, however he was framed so her whole families were killed, living only Shang Jun & her younger sister. Shang Jun is taking a male identity and with the help of MSQ’s resources, they created Piao Miao Manor that has been helping the common people at Lin Feng Guan border.

Lang Yue – One of the maids at Piao Miao Manor.

Shang Xiao – Shang Jin’s younger sister. I think she should be matched up with Pei Che.

Wei Na – She likes Mo Can & maybe Mo Can’s female lead. She is described to have a slightly darker skin, with a delicate face & straightforward expression. A young fiery woman who contrasted Mo Can’s cold & ruthless appearance. A free spirited woman (similar to MSQ in a way).