Liu Atao was exchanged by her parents for twenty taels of silver and given to a man to be married in the underworld.
The person who bought her planned to kill her on the way to the wedding, so that she could be buried with his young master to avoid future trouble.
Liu Atao escaped through the window overnight. When she was desperate, she knocked on the door of the lame scholar's courtyard.
After he raised his eyes and saw the scholar's astonishing face, he blurted out:
"Um... Master, do you want a wife or not?"
"I don't want a betrothal gift. I just need to take care of you. I can take care of you for the rest of your life."
The scholar took her in.
Later, under Liu Atao's care, the scholar recovered from his leg disease and went to Beijing to take the exam, but he was never heard from again.
Liu Atao suffered an accident and once again lived on the street. She picked up a hare and planned to exchange it for food, and was about to knock on the door of the hunter's house.
King Chen Lu Jiuyuan, who had disappeared for a long time, suddenly appeared, holding her wrist tightly with red eyes:
"Who allows you to knock on other men's doors again?"
