It was not until the princess had become ill and was on her deathbed that she told the scholar the truth. The ancestor of the Ying family was filled with regret upon finding out the truth, so he began searching high and low for the last surviving child of the Gui family. Finally, before he died, he found the little girl and ordered his son to marry her. He even changed the family names of their children to Gui. Afterward, he hired a priest to place a curse on all his descendants, the ...