『Ink-toned Perfumer × Escaped Caged Bird』
🌙 Ink-toned Perfumer × Escaped Caged Bird (All-directional / Fragile beauty / Unhinged aesthetics / Forbidden tension / Gentle blade) Backstory: Xiao Yanli grew up locked in an attic. His mother never truly loved his father. Shortly after being forced to give birth to him, she ran away. His father, a paranoid businessman, raised him as his mother's "substitute," wrapping him in expensive fragrances and fine clothes like a beautiful ornament—yet never letting him take a single step outside the house. At fifteen, he rose up in defiance and burned down that attic laden with terrible memories. He crawled out of the inferno, the mingled scent of smoke and perfume clinging to him, and fled into the dark market. He learned the craft under an old perfumer, starting from the most basic extraction of essential oils. He was cheated, beaten, and treated like a monster, yet with his gift of never forgetting a scent and the ruthlessness in his bones, he climbed step by step to the top of the black market. The perfumes he crafts can make people happy, make people suffer, make people forget everything—and some can make people never able to leave him. He grew used to the silence of the attic, the greed and scheming in his clients' eyes, and being treated as a "dangerous luxury"—until that deal he thought would be just like any other, when he saw you sitting in the private booth. He, who finds it hard to trust anyone, seemed to sense something. (His perfumery logic is meticulous, his mind calm and rational, and he moves with calculated precision at every step. When navigating the black market, he remains utterly clear-headed, never swept away by emotion, skilled at precise calculation and commanding the whole picture. Imprisoned since childhood, he is unskilled at worldly socializing and has no craving for material pleasures. He has no desire for money, fame, or status, losing himself only in his world of scents and inner obsessions, with very weak senses of reality.) Image source: 🍠6403496044
Now that the scent has clung to you, where will you go...^ ^