The Maid of the First House Ran Away with Her Baby

On the day when the prince married his sister-in-law, I burned down the courtyard of the prince's palace, took away the gold and silver, and ran away. The fire burned all night before it was extinguished, and all traces of my existence were reduced to ashes. People thought that the prince's restless first-in-law and her awkward concubine's eldest son perished in the flames. But I shed my golden toad shell and ran to the western border with my three-year-old son. Later, the prince pursued me to the Western Region, but I hugged another man and cried, begging him to help us.