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Is for her to be freed from him or free herself from the shackles of life. Once you're in the state she's in no "worldly" opinion could realistically influence her. She's now in the state of limbo which means she sees no difference between life or death and everything that she hopes for will be considered meaningless unless she gives her hopes and actual value.
ML should've at least understood the state of being at ones lowest and just what exact direction the mind can be twisted towards... I mean he foolishly wanted to take his anger out on someone and then expected them to act the same exact cute way he was familiar with in the past? How ludicrous to think he'd get his cake and eat it too. Foolish.