Tuoba Feiyuan was severely injured this time—not in her body, but in her heart.
In truth, although she had taken fifty strikes of the board that day, the executioners were sharp-witted and didn't dare to use any real force. After all, she had dared to strike Prince Jin himself at the banquet, and Prince Jin hadn't executed her on the spot. Everyone present knew that this woman was currently the apple of the Prince's eye. If they had actually beaten her to death, they wouldn't have survived either. If not for this, taking eighty blows in total would have left her dead or crippled—how could she possibly be walking away with nothing more than superficial scrapes?
Yet her pride had been thoroughly and utterly battered inside and out.
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