Shen Du, a high school Chinese teacher, traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty and found himself living next door to Wu Dalang on Zishi Street in Yanggu County.
He taught "Water Margin" for eight years, and every year when he talked about "Wu Song killed his sister-in-law", there would be a quarrel in class. Now he doesn't have to argue. He only needs to go to the next door and say a word to change Pan Jinlian's fate.
But he doesn't.
He set a rule for himself: save only Pan Jinlian and not change the outcome of anyone else in Water Margin. Wu Song still killed Ximen Qing, still went to Liangshan, and the fate of the 108 generals remained unchanged.
What he did was harder - not to choose a path for her, but to give her a way when she had no other way to go.
She has the final say whether to leave or not.
