Yao Yun'er was paraded through the streets from dawn until dusk. By the time the ordeal ended, everyone from the highest-ranking officials to the lowliest street hawkers knew exactly what had happened.
Once the final round was complete, Yun Feiwan sent people to bring her back to the estate and settled her into the Yulan Courtyard.
Yao Yun'er remained in a stupor, and it was the dead of night, so dark one could not see one's own fingers, when she finally regained consciousness. She touched the soft quilt beneath her and felt a comfort a hundred times greater than anything she had experienced over the past few days, unable to suppress a sigh of wonder.
Chapter 36