Chapter 38
— Zhuge Liang Plans For The Three Kingdoms; Sun Quan Attacks Xiakou To Take Revenges.
Casts the inauspicious lot her husband ignores, then avenges him with pure stagecraft: a feigned betrothal to buy thirty days, two loyal old generals hidden in a chamber, the suitor Gui Lan led drunk to the daggers, Dai Yuan slain at a second supper - and the two heads hung before her husband's coffin as she resumes her mourning white.