The Liu Family hung up two white lanterns that very night. When the neighbors inquired, they learned that Grandma Liu had a premature and difficult childbirth, delivering a stillborn, and she herself did not make it either.
No one found it peculiar; after all, too many women perished at the birthing gates in those years, and it had become a sight all too common. What everyone found lamentable was that such a domineering and haughty person like Grandma Liu died in childbirth, leaving one to wonder if she was resigned to her fate.
Whether Grandma Liu was resigned or not, she herself did not know. Once she died, she was whisked away by the ghost messengers. Du Juan and her son then sought another nemesis, Daoist Yin Shan.
