Do you think that the woman in the story would take the boatman's advice and start a new life? Or would she commit suicide? The old man agrees with the first result, but he thinks that the girl in the tale has something more to do with it. She was told that her love for her husband was destroyed by betrayal, and that she would hate him later on. The girl was also told that the happy scene of her life with her lover was all her hope had been destroyed. The Old Man thinks that yimo would never commit suicide because she is a tough girl, but that she might take the opportunity to get revenge on the concubine and her husband. He thinks that if yimo did commit suicide, then she could take the events of her first life and make it into a nightmare. But if she didn't commit suicide , then yimo wouldn't have to deal with the events that happened in her last life. She would be able to take revenge on her lover and husband. But yimo still wants to be treated well in her new life, so she begs the Old Man to give her another chance. She begs him not to hurt her or kill her in the past life, but to treat her well in the new life. He agrees to this, and the old man thinks that he is smart enough to know that she heard the story from yimo, and not from the story itself.