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When sorting out my father's belongings, I shook off a bloody land deed from the Diamond Sutra. The contract records that the father once took a Suzhou Pingtan actress as his concubine, and there are five scarlet fingerprints on the signature. What's even weirder is that half of a maggot-infested earlobe is stuck on the deed paper. I suddenly remembered that my third aunt in the family was born with a mutilated left ear. That night, she stroked her broken ear and whispered to me: "Did Master smell it too? There is an earthy smell in this contract." When her cold fingers touched the shell of my ear, I felt an old scar behind my ear. --It turns out that the owner of the fifth bloody fingerprint is myself.