She knew it - seven locations, spread far and wide, with sea travel and river travel in between? There is no way she's been in Yancai this long, which means the place is toying with...her memories? God, how ironic, really - maybe it's penance? Justified punishment for what she did to her parents, or -

He gets down on one knee and she does as told. Looks at him, focuses. Clan leader, Lan clan.

After a long pause of looking and focusing, she asks weakly, "Are you going to offer to play me one of those calming songs too, now?"

(Listen, you hang out around Sizhui and Wangji long enough while still carrying the spirits of sacrificed souls to a dorman volcano, and you end up hearing quite a lot of those tunes.)