When spring comes, Liu and Ruan say they want to go home, and the two fairy women tell them the way out of the mountains. But on returning home they find "friends and relatives scattered, town and houses changed, nothing as they had known it."
後遇兩位女子，共同生活，春來，兩人要求回家，仙女指示出路，既出，「親舊零落，邑屋改異，無復相識。」