In the 31st year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang passed away at the age of seventy-one. Soon after, the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen came to the throne. Fearing the threat of his uncles, he successively eliminated the five weaker vassal kings. In the palace of Prince Xiang in Jingzhou, someone falsely accused Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, of treason. Zhu Yunwen sent an envoy to arrest Zhu Bai. Zhu Bai was furious and would rather die than suffer humiliation. So he gathered his family members, closed the door of the palace tightly, ordered people to pile up dry diesel fuel, and set fire to himself. Burning, at this critical moment, Princess Wu of Hunan took her eldest daughter Zhu Xinyao, who was only eleven years old (a fictional character, historical records indicate that the second daughter of the King of Hunan died when she was young) and the maid who had taken care of her since childhood, and pulled them to the back door. Concubine Wu pushed her daughter Zhu Xinyao to her maid Xiaonan. Zhu Xinyao cried and held Concubine Wu's hand and said, "Mom, I won't leave, I want to be with you." Concubine Wu held her hand and comforted: "If you want me to die, I have to die, but you are the only bloodline in our family. As long as you live well and keep this bloodline, your father and I will die without regrets."
