A Clear Thought in the Qing Dynasty

In candlelit darkness, cold shadows fall across the painted screen. A small green silk fan flutters at fireflies in flight. The night air on the palace steps is cool as water. Lying down, I watch the Cowherd and Weaver Girl stars. "...Order the commoner Yunsi's wife to take her own life, then scatter her remains to punish her for her crimes. To scatter the remains means to spread the ashes. Another account says they were given a commoner's burial. If the palace report isn't mistaken, then this must have been the Imperial Clan Court's judgment." If Guoluo Luoshi were no longer the Guoluo Luoshi of old, that proud, stubborn, haughty, and utterly tragic woman from history, could she find another kind of happiness by another path?