31. Mulan Returned Home To A Changed Family
A lot changes in a year. And even more changes in 12 years! In one version of the story, Mulan returned home to find that her father had long since passed away. She had received no word of his passing, as she had been captured by the enemy army and spent years in the service of its leader.
Not only was her father gone, but her mother had also remarried. She would have had to remarry, as prospects for women in traditional cultures have always been quite barren. But the heroine is quite distressed at how many changes occurred and that her home is no longer the happy place that it once was.