After Sun Quan heard about this story, he ordered the painter to draw Lady Pan's portrait.
Although Lady Pan looked glum in the portrait, Sun Quan was shocked because of her beauty and exclaimed:"She is a goddess, indeed.
Thus she expressed her jealousy freely and never ceased slandering and harming Sun Quan's other wives until her death.
People believed that the Pan's words foreshadowed the political chaos at the end of Sun Quan's reign.
When Sun Quan became seriously ill in 252, Empress Pan asked Sun Hong (孫弘), the Prefect of the Palace Writers (中書令), about how Empress Lü governed a country after the death of her husband (Emperor Gao of the Han dynasty).
However, a number of historians, including Hu Sanxing, a commentator on Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, pointed out that this claim is unfounded and it is a misinterpretation of the original text.
He also believed that top Wu officials were complicit, as they feared that she would seize power as empress dowager after Sun Quan's death.
Empress Pan was buried together with Sun Quan at the Jiang Mausoleum (蔣陵; at the Purple Mountain, Nanjing, Jiangsu).
[13] According to Wang Jia, Pan and Sun Quan's other concubine, Lady Zhao, are equally famous.
[14] On the other hand, Zhu Ju compare her to Li Ji, believing that she may have played some important role in deposing the former crown prince.
Yuan Mei, a Chinese poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote, The poor girl's face was full of tears, imprisoned in the textile factory.
The last place that could move the emperor was the sad expression on the painting.滿面啼痕淚不收,堪憐織室竟同幽,誰知感動君王處,就在圖中一點愁。Pan was briefly introduced in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
She made contributions to the dissemination of Buddhism and established the first Buddhist temple called Huibaosi (惠寶寺) in Wuchang, the provisional capital of Eastern Wu.