Lady Liang did not die all at once.
She just couldn't move anymore and wanted to rest, thinking she would wait.
She didn't even realize while crawling that she actually couldn't write...
As a Dancing Girl, she only needed to look good and have a pleasing demeanor. Where would she have learned to read and write?
She merely forgot due to her terminal illness.
She lay against the doorframe, panting for a break. But once she stopped to rest, she never got up again.
No one knows when she became unconscious and slipped into a stupor.
And in this stupor, she never woke up.
The next day, it was already morning when the servant brought food and discovered her body had gone stiff for who knows how long.
Only then did they go around to spread the news.
The Empress Dowager, upon hearing of her death, felt a sense of relief. It was good she had died; these past ten days, she had merely been watching her die.
