一念常安 aka Peace & Love, Episode 6.
That is from a web micro-drama series called 一念常安 aka Peace & Love, Episode 6. (China 2024) Guard M/F Wang Xiaodie daughter of the Wang family, striking with thick wooden pole on her buttocks, position of lying on a bench, in front of witnesses. The physical punishment was ordered by a matron of the Wang family. During the corporal punishment, her husband Fu An arrives and courageously puts a stop to the flogging. He does this despite being disrespected by the family, holding a low social status, and being looked down upon as a mere matrilocal son-in-law. Xiaodie is punished for three main offenses that combine traditional superstitions with strict Confucian social hierarchy - Violating filial piety (lack of daughterly devotion). Xiaodie tried to save the Old Master (her father) by putting her own blood into his medicine. The Matron accuses her of having an inauspicious horoscope. She claims that because Xiaodie's fate is unlucky, her blood would actually poison or...