44 LORD YUN If you could break those ropes, it just meant that you were more dangerous than I thought … The guard with the dagger turns out to have actually faked the faint . He gets up, as does the guard with the whip . They come into the room again . Lord Yun exits, leaving Shui to scream at him . SHUI YOU BEAST … ! FLASHBACK ENDS EXT . YUN ESTATE COURTYARD DAY Lord Yun caresses the face of his wife as he continues . LORD YUN Now you know why that night I sent for you . I wanted you to be my judge . (Beat) I had known till then that Shui himself may have been a murderer, but he was no ordinary man . I could not allow him to hurt anyone all the same . So what did I do? Everything I did in the room that night was staged by me, so that I could receive your judgment in its purest form . (Beat) I know there was nothing so much as a well - written opera that caught your fancy, my dear, and showed me your true feelings, that night what I performed was my own one - man opera . There is a moment of silence between husband and wife . Lady Yun’s tears seem to dry for a while as she breaks into a smile . Then she laughs, not a merry laugh, but one that is slightly insane . Then she collapses into her husband’s arms, and stays there . The couple are now in a spinning world, and one that has only the two of them in it . Lord Yun also gives an equally bitter smile for a while, and clasps his wife’s head to his bosom . He looks up into the sky .