She did not hang herself like most people do, suspended from the beam in the middle of the room. With her broken legs, she couldn't climb onto a stool. Instead, she used a strip of white cloth to strangle herself by looping it around her neck and fastening it to a bedpost, suffocating to death.
What determination it must take to strangle oneself to death.
Miss Du stared blankly at the cold corpse, unable to utter a word for a long time.
She said she wanted to find him; this was the method she chose in the end.
If something isn't yours, it never will be. Even if you resort to such measures to find him, it's still not meant to be—why couldn't she understand?
After a long while, Miss Du started blankly and said faintly, "Arrange a funeral procession, bury her generously!"
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