The people of Shangmi surrendered to Qin whilst the commander of the Chu army was captured.

Thereafter the Qin army returned to their territory with the Chu pursuit of their troops coming too late.

A year later in 507 BCE, Wu defeated Chu's navy once more raising the threat of their extermination and thus decided to move their capital from Ying to the eponymous state capital of Ruo where it would be hidden from the Wu vanguard.

In a 2001 article entitled “Introductory Explanation of the Shi Shan Pan Inscriptions”, Song Fenghan (朱凤瀚) writes that the inscriptions on Shi Shan Pan artifacts in the National Museum of China mention Ruo and thus show that such a state existed at the time of the Western Zhou dynasty.

Zhou Baohong (周宝宏) also makes the association between the State of Ruo and the Spring and Autumn period.