In the new version, she instead follows her father's instructions to be married to Ma Wencai, whom she doesn't love. Though unhappy, she reasons that, anyway, the Ma family has status and wealth. As it turns out, she does get along all right in the Ma household. Unexpectedly, however, the Zhu and Ma families decide that she should return home to serve her elderly father.
好似從父命嫁給了馬文才的祝英台，雖然委屈，但馬家有財有勢，日子也就過下來了，不想忽然祝、馬兩家又決定讓英台從此回家侍奉老父，而且就在這個月之後就要離別。