No wonder Cui Mei chose such a drastic way to kill herself; she had to risk her life to protect her mother, only to find it was too late to extricate herself afterwards.
Infected with syphilis, her beauty destroyed, and pregnant out of wedlock, she was at the mercy of someone else holding the evidence against her. Moreover, she might have harbored a trace of affection for Han Shan. Some say, the shortest path to a woman's heart is the "yin path," which might well apply to a courtesan like Cui Mei who remained chaste even in a brothel.
"Who killed Fan Chun? And who wanted to kill you?" Ran Yan asked.
