Liu'er's mother watched Li Changliang, her face streaked with tears. 'If only my Liu'er were well, she could have married him,' she thought with bitter regret. 'Then being sent back wouldn't have mattered so much.' But she didn't stop to consider that if her Liu'er were well, she would have done everything in her power to get the Tang family to take Liu'er back, not marry her off to Li Changliang.
Li Changliang stared at Liu'er and said fiercely, "I'm just a bachelor. What do I have for you to ruin? How would marrying me be useless? Even if you die, you'll be one of the Li Family, buried in the Li Family burial ground."
Liu'er shook her head. "What difference does it make where I'm buried? It'd be just as peaceful on some nameless, weedy hill."
