 Within a year of her elder brother Heo Pong's death in Kapsan, she committed suicide at the age of twenty seven.The circumstances and timing of her marriage are uncertain, and documented proof is limited and subject to conjecture.Scholars such as Kim-Renaud and Choe-Wall engage with her literature, and hypothesize that she lived among her brothers for a significant portion of her life (during which they suggest most of her Tang-influenced and naturalistic poetry was produced), and married later.