"Master Shen Buyan left her a silver needle before his death and said: 'Go to Taihu Lake and find a mute.'"
"Mute Du in the depths of Taihu Lake has an old scar on his throat. He can't speak, but he can dip in water and write out a complete recipe for forbidden magic."
"The black jade on his waist forms a complete break with the dragon-patterned black jade of Zhenbei King Xiao Yan - he is the younger brother of Zhenbei King who has been missing for more than 20 years."
"The mouths of the three female corpses were stuffed with bad jade that smelled like gardenia. One piece said it was orchid-scented, and she smelled it was blood - the deceased used his own blood to scratch the surface of the jade, carving the person he saw before his death into the heart of the jade."
"Before she could chase her out of Taihu Lake, a fire broke out in Cheng Mansion for half the night. Cheng Xueting's body was found at the bottom of the well, with a word written in blood on the inside of his clothes: 'crossing.'"
"He dipped water on the slate and wrote one word - 'Ask.'"
"The cup of tea where she squatted on the dock waiting for him to finish writing, he later described for three years."
"After the Cheng Mansion fire was extinguished, he carved the first water level mark on the stone steps of Taiye Pool."
"The first thing he said was not to ask her name - he was to dip his hands in water and trace a mark on her tiger's mouth. It was the same arc as the one she traced on the old ferry's stone slab."
"She has been waiting for so long, waiting for that mark to be recognized."
"She could smell the last moments of the deceased, but it took an entire waterway to smell him, which had passed through her palm countless times before he opened his mouth."
Purpose: Wu Xiang spent most of his life repeatedly deducing the formula for the antidote to Suoxinxiang and experimented with his own blood. He tried countless times but failed to complete it. The formula she had cut out was re-soaked with blood by Shen Duzhou. She had no gardenias to plant in the dense forests of southern Xinjiang, but Aluo planted them into a sea of flowers. The carvings she repeatedly made on the stone steps of Taiye Pond are deepened every winter, shallower every spring, and placed under the gardenia flowers every year. What you have no time to do, someone will do it for you. This is the way the scent masters pass on - not by notes, but by hands. The hands of each generation remember the temperature of the previous generation, and the next generation passes the same temperature to the next generation.