[1] According to Li Zhen, Zhao Luanluan was born to an elite family in Dongping, in modern Shandong province.
Liu took great risks to find his wife and managed to gain her release, and the couple took refuge in the Culai Mountain (徂徕山) in Shandong.
Liu Ying, however, was later captured and killed by the rebels, and Zhao threw herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
[1] The story of Zhao Luanluan and her husband inspired a late-Yuan or early-Ming nanxi drama called Liu Ying, which has been lost.
Moreover, they thought she was a prostitute working in Pingkang, the red light district of the Tang capital Chang'an,[3] because some of her poems are erotic in nature.