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Liu et al. (2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026292) provide comments on two papers introducing the rescaled Complementary Relationship (CR) of evaporation. Four concerns regarding the rescaled CR were raised and are addressed herein. Specifically, it is shown here that (1) the rescaled CR is not simply an asymmetric advection-aridity model; (2) a discontinuity in the slope of the rescaled CR at the point where evaporation is zero is not problematic because that point represents a true minimum value; (3) a particular formulation of the rescaled CR presented in an earlier paper was not recommended by the present authors, but was simply intended to illustrate that a range of boundary conditions can be accommodated; and (4) while behavior of the model advocated by Liu et al. 2020) can be modified to match the lower limit introduced by the rescaled CR, there is little theoretical justification or practical utility for doing so. Inherent in several of the concerns seems to be a misconception held by the authors of the Comment regarding the nature of the lower limit in the rescaled CR. Once this misconception is addressed, none of the concerns represent a weakness in the rescaled CR concept.