When the minister asks about the case, Lingzi tells him that she did not kill her husband and that she had no idea about the death of her cousin. The minister tells Lingzi that she is just a servant and that he must have been involved in the rape and murder of liniang back in the day. Lingzi protests that she was the one who raped and murdered her husband, and the minister points out that the doctor who treated her husband was the same doctor who recently killed Lingzi's cousin.