Everyone knows that the fragrant bones of the Xie family can communicate with the gods.
On the day Xie Yang's kneecap was smashed, the executioner chuckled in his ear:
"Young Master, don't blame me. If you want to complain, just complain that you were born into the wrong family - the bones of your family are the most expensive spices in the world."
Three years later, Xie Yang was carried into the Yan Palace in a small sedan chair to congratulate the King of Hell who had killed his mother and brother.
On their wedding night, Xiao Jue pinched his chin and forced him to mix incense to relieve the pain.
As the fragrant mist rose, Xie Yang saw a tampered memory:
On a rainy night seven years ago, the young Xiao Jue personally handed the poisonous incense to his mother.
There is a cinnabar mole on Xiao Jue's wrist.
The next day, Xie Yang dug the dry well in the palace and fished out three skeletons.
The first one belongs to Xiao Jue's biological mother and has no mole on her wrist.
The second one belongs to the late empress, holding in the palm of her hand Xie's sachet which was not passed down to others.
The third body... Is the remains of young Xiao Jue, who died before the "matricide".
Xie Yang pinched the phalanx belonging to Xiao Jue and smiled softly.
It turns out that he married a person who has died long ago.
"Your Majesty."
Xie Yang lit a causal incense, and Xiao Jue's forgotten childhood emerged in the smoke:
"Guess, whose hand was the hand that handed the incense back then?"
Xiao Jue stared at the cinnabar mole on the wrist in the mist, his face as pale as paper.
That's his mother's mole.
But the mother-concubine's bones were smooth and unmarked on her wrists.
"There are more interesting ones."
Xie Yang burned another incense, and last night emerged in the smoke:
"When you drank my blood to relieve pain, did you ever taste it——
That blood is mixed with the fragrance of your biological father's ashes? "
Reading Guide
Beautiful and powerful·Memory detective·Pseudo-disabled × Collapse of self-perception·I married myself·Crazy criticism
Both male protagonists are atypical stand-ins (he thinks he is a stand-in/he thinks he is the original protagonist)
Xiangshu solves the case + memory tampering + identity puzzle, every reversal is reasonable and unexpected
Emotional line: from "I want to dissect you" to "I want to be you", the ultimate redemption literature
The ending is HE, but everyone has to shed three layers of skin
"Later, Xiao Jue knelt in the incense mist and lit the causal incense over and over again."
"He wanted to find the child who handed the incense, but he only saw Xie Yang smiling at him in a pool of blood:"
"Stop looking, Your Majesty."
"From the beginning, the person delivering the incense——"
"That's me."
Purpose: Memories can be tampered with, but the truth engraved in the bones and blood will always find its way home.