When Dieyi learns opera at school, the teacher is extremely strict. The teacher usually gives serious physical punishment if the student's performance needs to improve. Young Dieyi is punished because of his mistake in the words of the play. The critical line is “I am by nature a girl, not a boy.” At first he keeps saying "I am by nature a boy, not a girl." After several punishments, he is forced to accept his position as a female figure and correct his line. In a sense, Dieyi is forced by society to change gender. At the moment of his death he repeats the words “I am by nature a boy, not a girl”. commits suicide after finishing the show. The reason for his death is questionable. A confident claim illustrated by Chen is that "he dies not as a male, but as a female imitator in the role of Concubine Yu, with whom he so devotedly identifies." Dieyi's gender is confused when she attends opera school. Furthermore, his death may be his wish that he does not want to separate from Xiaolou in his spirituality