We all read this story in high school, right? Mongol king finds out his daughter’s romancing a peasant (or vice-versa) and says THROW HIM TO THE TIGER! OR MAYBE IT’LL BE A LADY! MWUAHAHAHA! …Anyway, this always gets held up as an example of an ambivalent ending, because we don’t know what the princess would hate more—to see her beloved ripped apart by a tiger or to see him happy with another woman for the rest of their lives. But there is an answer, and it doesn’t rely on the princess at all. Instead, it all comes down to the king.
