A Long Journey of Fragrant Dreams

A coming-of-age novel about traumatic memory, self-healing and scent identity. Core theme: "By making incense, a person can regain his lost memory and finally reconcile with his past." Tan Xiang encountered plagiarism in the workplace and betrayal in marriage. When she was divorcing, she found a peace charm written "Tan Xiang" and the date of the winter solstice five years ago in her husband's coat. She went to Qingxu Temple in Zhongnan Mountain and repeatedly dreamed that she was a white cat being held by a boy while making incense. I met Shen Yi when I went down the mountain to participate in the exhibition. During the cooperation between the two, they learned that Tan Xiang had fainted at the medical station five years ago, and Shen Yi wrote a peace charm. Shen Yi confessed that his sick son Xiaoshu was not his biological son, but Tan Xiang chose to accompany him in the hospital: "I am also there." The two made an incense burner together, and Tan Xiang named it "Fragrant Dream Long Journey". Three years later, at the winter solstice, she found a note in the incense bag given by the old Taoist priest: "What you lost five years ago was not the incense, but the half breath you lost." She stuffed the peace charm under the moss and turned around to go down the mountain.