Zhuyue and that old woman were beaten to death on the spot. As an official's daughter, Wen Shuyue was treated differently from the servants. However, while she had escaped the death penalty, she could not avoid suffering. She was sentenced to one hundred blows with a heavy rod, her father Wen Jitong was stripped of his official post, and they were fined five hundred taels of silver.
Wen Shuyue, stripped from the waist down, was thrown out of the government office. The surrounding crowd of commoners pointed and gossiped at her, but she had already passed out from the pain. She lay there on the ground until Fang's people came to take her away.
In the Marquis Mansion, Lin Zhi was painting with Chu Jing. She drew a few stick figures surrounding and beating up a smaller figure in the middle. Then, she labeled it with Chu Jing's name and laughed uncontrollably.
Chu Jing found it baffling; he had no idea what she was so happy about.
