Chapter 56 - 55 Shen Yinning, How Dare You
Shen Yunxi had always been dissatisfied with the Chief Maid Zhang, and upon learning that she had ruined the silk robe worth a fortune, her anger exploded. Without listening to Zhang’s explanation, she immediately ordered the palace attendants to beat her with paddles.
Shen Yinning stood by the side, watching.
The over-forty-year-old Chief Maid, usually commanding respect and authority, was now pressed onto the long bench for punishment. Her wizened face contorted in agony, twisted with sweat and tears, crying out in pitiful anguish, losing all dignity and pride.
After twenty strikes of the paddle, her buttocks were mangled and bloody. Her entire body was drenched in cold sweat, as if she had been fished out of water.
Shen Yunxi lounged lazily under the corridor: "Maid Zhang deliberately damaged this palace’s silk robe, a garment worth a thousand gold coins. Even selling you wouldn’t repay the loss. Today’s twenty paddles are a minor warning. You best be cautious in the future."
Zhang’s face was as pale as gold paper, her lips trembling, unable to utter a single word.
Shen Yinning smiled, silently watching as two palace maids carried her away.
Serving her master faithfully for over a decade, being beaten like this—who knew what Zhang Cuichun might be thinking in her heart?
But this pain on her body was mere feathers compared to her own mother’s life.
Sooner or later...
Sooner or later, Zhang Cuichun would pay with her life.