she thereafter carried the title of Duchess Dowager of Lu. Later that year, after the official Pei Renji (裴仁基) led a failed plot to overthrow Wang and restore Yang Tong, Wang sent his nephew Wang Renze (王仁則) and his servant Liang Bainian (梁百年) to force Yang Tong to commit suicide. Yang Tong asked for an opportunity to bid the former empress dowager farewell, but was not allowed to, and after he took poison but did not die from it, was strangled to death. There was no further record in history about what happened to her. Chinese empresses dowager Sui dynasty people 6th-century births 7th-century deaths