"If he knew I was dead, perhaps he would grieve and feel guilty. Every year at Qingming, he might come visit my grave with a bunch of little chrysanthemums. But what about ten or twenty years from now? Time makes the things you treasure seem worthless, then you forget them." Zuo Tu said, "So I'll make him believe I'm still alive, but I'll never forgive him. That way, he'll remember me for the rest of his life, unable to put me out of his mind."
From beginning to end, he was a shameless man.
