Lady Cui 崔夫人

In Chapter 118 of the Romance, when Deng Ai takes Mianzhu, the Later Sovereign, following the advice of Qiao Zhou, Grandee of Splendid Happiness, is about to surrender, and his fifth son, Liu Chen, Prince of Beidi, coming out from behind a screen, rebukes Qiao Zhou and urges with tears that they make a last stand with their backs to the city wall and die together with the altars of the state. The Later Sovereign does not listen, has his close attendants push him out of the palace gate, and then has Qiao Zhou compose a letter of surrender and sends it to Deng Ai. When Deng Ai's reply arrives, it is settled that, choosing the 1st day of the 12th month, lord and ministers will go out to surrender. Romance, Ch. 118 §1 · 4 · 6–9

Liu Chen, hearing of this, is so enraged that his fury seems to pierce the sky, and enters the palace wearing a sword. When his wife Lady Cui asks why the great prince's countenance is not as usual today, Liu Chen says that his royal father has already presented the letter of surrender, and that when lord and ministers go out to surrender tomorrow, the altars of the state will be cut off; he would rather die first and see the late emperor beneath the earth than bend the knee to others. Romance, Ch. 118 §9

Lady Cui cries, 'How worthy! How worthy! You have found the right place to die!', asks to die first herself, and says that the prince will not be too late to die after her. When Liu Chen asks why she would die, she answers that the prince dies for his father and she, his consort, dies for her husband, so their righteousness is the same; when a husband dies his wife follows him in death, so why need he ask? Having finished speaking, she dashes her head against a pillar and dies. Romance, Ch. 118 §10

Liu Chen kills his three sons with his own hand, cuts off even his wife's head and carries it to the temple of Emperor Zhaolie (Liu Bei), where he weeps and reports that, ashamed to see the patrimony thrown away into the hands of others, he has first killed his wife and children to cut off all attachments and means to repay his grandfather with this one life. Then, after weeping so bitterly that blood flows from his eyes, he cuts his own throat and dies, and there is no one in Shu who does not grieve on hearing of it. Romance, Ch. 118 §10–11