It was midnight, and Zhou still couldn't sleep. Suddenly he heard fast footsteps on the shore, and in a moment…
It was midnight, and Zhou still couldn't sleep. Suddenly he heard fast footsteps on the shore, and in a moment, someone reached the boat.
Asking who it was, he found it was Lady Qian, arriving barefoot on foot. Zhou took her hand and asked where she'd come from. She wept, "Your deep affection never wavered. I've pined for you so much I'd risk death to repay it, so I fled to join you."
……Later they returned to Hengzhou together. The Lady Qian at home rose joyfully at the news. When she went out to greet them, the two Lady Qians suddenly merged into one, their clothes overlapping.
Pei Xinglin's annotation: Could it be that Miss Duan next door… is also suffering from this soul-separation illness?