Adapted from Feng Menglong's "Eternal Words to Awaken the World: Fifteen Jokes Turn into Misfortunes" by Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty
Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty was as prosperous as a dream. Liu Gui, a down-and-out official, drank to drown his sorrows and made a nasty joke to his concubine, Sister Chen, saying, "I've sold you for fifteen guan." The second sister believed that he really ran away overnight, but she didn't want thieves to take the opportunity to break into the house, kill Liu Gui and steal money.
When the second sister encounters Cui Ning, a silk seller, on the way to escape, what awaits them is not life, but the butcher's knife of being hunted down by their neighbors, beaten to death, and killed by both of them. Wang, the eldest wife of the Liu family, said "truthfully identify" in court, which became the last straw for them.
A year later, Wang was kidnapped by bandits and unexpectedly learned the real murderer of her husband. When the truth is revealed, the souls killed by the sword can no longer be resurrected. Facing the cannibalistic class and the cold-blooded government, this once silent woman finally woke up. She will spend the rest of her life asking for justice that has been delayed and tearing apart this terrible world!
