> “A healer can save lives, while a poison master can strike at the heart. As for those in this world who wronged me, they’ll neither swallow a life-saving pill nor escape the needle that takes their lives.”
>, Mo Yu, on the day the plaque was hung at the Ink Medicine Pavilion
> “When we first met in that abandoned dispensary, you said the Coldheart Powder could be cured by basking in the scorching sun. Only later did I understand: you were my sun.”
>, Chu Linyuan, before the new emperor’s decree granting their marriage
> “The beauty of ink lies in its ability to conceal every poison and contain every medicine, much like this corrupt world. Tell me, everyone: is it poison or medicine?”
