A Common Wife Is Also a Wife

In the third year of Yonghui, I, who was as delicate as a flower bone, was ordered by an imperial edict to be married to Xu Changling, the Marquis of Xuanwu, as my wife. My father was extremely sad and angry about this, so he threw me a piece of white silk and cried: "A scholar cannot be killed but cannot be humiliated. How can I, the daughter of the Ruan family, be an equal wife? You must not tarnish the lintel of our family. Go ahead!" I looked at the white silk on the ground, my heart was pounding, and I cried and said to my father: "The road to hell is cold. Why don't you accompany your daughter, and you and I will die together? Such integrity can be considered a good story." My father thought for a while and felt that what I said was right, so he responded with tears. In this way, the father and daughter held each other's arms and cried, one called daddy and the other called daughter. The scene was really touching! ! ! Purpose: Even if life is full of hardships, we should be positive and optimistic and face difficulties.