This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Ching-yuan, in which he tells his wife that he will not let go of her hand on the path. He tells her that she is his love and that she will never be able to separate him from her. He then goes on to tell her that he is going to play the part of a different man who is suspected of having been killed in the battle. This time, he tells her, they will mourn their dead daughter in the open and not mourn her in the
This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Ching-yuan, in which he tells his wife that he will not let go of her hand on the path. He tells her that she is his love and that she will never be able to separate him from her. He then goes on to tell her that he is going to play the part of a different man who is suspected of having been killed in the battle. This time, he tells her, they will mourn their dead daughter in the open and not mourn her in the