Frame?
A friendly smile appeared on Lord Lin’s face, but his eyes were sinister.
"Whether it is true or false, mistake or crime, that can be decided after going to the government office," he said slowly.
He had been an official for decades. His family had been entrenched in Yangcheng. No cases that passed through his hands weren’t decided by him. Why talk to him about fairness. If you want to talk about fairness, you must talk about god, and in Yangcheng he was a god.
You, a young woman, even if your father was a man loyal to the state, he could not stop your death. But he did not want her to die. Her crime was not a mortal crime, just conduct offending public morals.
For girls, offending public morals could often take their will to live, making living worse than dying.