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Cheng could hardly believe this as he had spent the night at this wonderful place and he told the proprietor such. The proprietor suspected that it was the local fox spirit, who liked to beguile men into staying the night with her. After several weeks had passed without his spotting the lady again, Cheng finally stumbled across her in the market place. She knew that Cheng had figured out her secret and was shocked that he would seek her out again. Cheng professed his love for her and proclaimed that he would take care of her and find her a place to live if she would marry him. After some convincing, Miss Ren agreed.
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make a move on Miss Ren and intended to rape her. Miss Ren fought against him but was too weak to break free of his hold, so instead she asked him to hold off for just a moment and became very sad. When asked why she looked so upset, Miss Ren said it was because she felt bad for Cheng because she was all that he has in life that was nice while Wei was rich and had had many beauties; if Wei Yin were to take her as well, Cheng would be left with nothing. This brought Wei to his senses and he apologized to Miss Ren.
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After this misunderstanding, the two became close and often spent time together. Miss Ren also pulled strings to get a nice wife for Wei because of his honorable actions but he was never satisfied. Miss Ren would try to help both men by bribing families to get new women for Wei and to make more money
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Cheng was greatly upset that Miss Ren had been killed thanks to his foolishness, and so he spent his own money to give her a proper burial and erected a grave marker to her. When he returned home, Wei Yin asked to see Miss Ren only to be informed by Cheng that she had been killed by hunting hounds.
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