Tang Lin gave Helan a small incense burner for incense.
Originally, Tang Lin just bought this incense burner when he saw it on the street and thought it was fun. When he brought it back to his house, he felt that it was of no use. He didn't understand incense and didn't like such elegant things. He happened to meet Helan in the yard and gave it to him.
There was nothing special about this, but Tang Lin didn't know that Helan actually had the habit of burning incense.
Helan's house is occasionally filled with a sultry aroma, sometimes light and sometimes strong. Helan himself is not a person who likes to be arty. He knows how to use incense, but he simply likes the illusory atmosphere surrounded by fragrance. Many times, being in the fragrance will make Helan feel like escaping from the world. More often, it is a kind of addiction that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion.
However, this kind of addiction is the last situation Helan can allow himself to appear.
When Tang Lin put the incense burner into Helan's hand, Helan had no expression at all. He just looked at Tang Lin's back and smiled a little self-deprecatingly.
Tang Lin sometimes smells different fragrances from Helan. In his opinion, it is no different from ordinary women's makeup, so he often teases Helan about whether he has contracted some Jinwuwei habits, completely ignoring the fact that he is also a frequent visitor to Flower Street. Most of the time, Helan smiled and said nothing, plainly saying that Tang Lin found it boring.
At some point, Helan also wanted to try to have fun with Tang Lin, but always ended in failure.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Helan knew better than anyone else that he was contradicting himself in many things, not just incense.