Lady White's punishment

 [This is what I wrote in 2003 about a Chinese myth, and it is widely spreaded in Chinese sp group, I take proud of taking it as my first story :)]

 For the background knowledge of this myth, please refer to here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_White_Snake


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Lv Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals in Chinese ancient stories, disguised himself as a man selling dumplings at the Broken Bridge near the West Lake in Hangzhou. A boy called Xu Xian purchased some dumplings from Lv Dongbin without knowing that they are pills leading to immortality. After taking these dumplings, he didn't feel hungry for the next three days, he felt so curious that he went back to ask why. Lv Dongbin laughed and carried Xu Xian to the bridge, where he grabbed Xu Xian's feet, suspended him upside down and caused him to vomit the dumplings into the lake.

In the lake, there was a white snake (Lady White) spirit who had been practicing Taoist magical arts in the hope of becoming an immortal body. She ate the pills and gained 500 years' worth of magical powers. She therefore felt grateful to Xu Xian and their fates became intertwined. There was tortoise spirit who also trained in the lake, but did not manage to consume any of the pills. He was very jealous of the white snake. One day, the white snake saw a beggar on the bridge that had caught a green snake and wanted to dig out the snake's gall and sold it. The white snake transformed into a woman and bought the green snake from the beggar, thus saving the green snake's life. The green snake felt appreciated to the white snake and she regarded the white snake as an elder sister.

Eighteen years later, during the Qingming Festival, the white and green snakes transformed themselves into two young women called Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing, respectively. They met Xu Xian at the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou. Xu lent them his umbrella because it was raining. Xu Xian and Bai Suzhen gradually fell in love and were eventually married. They moved to Zhenjiang, where they opened a pharmacy shop.

In the meantime, the tortoise spirit had accumulated enough powers to show up as a human form, so he transformed into a Buddhist monk called Fahai. Still angry with Bai Suzhen, Fahai plotted to break up her relationship with Xu Xian. He approached Xu Xian and told him that during the Duanwu Festival his wife should drink realgar wine, a wine associated with that festival. Bai Suzhen unsuspectingly drank the wine and revealed her true form as a large white snake. Xu Xian died of shock after seeing that his wife was not human. Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing travelled to Mount Emei, where they stole a magical herb that restored Xu Xian to life.

After coming back to life, Xu Xian still maintained his love for Bai Suzhen despite knowing her true identity. Fahai tried to separate them again by capturing Xu Xian and imprisoning him in Jinshan Temple.

Knowing her husband was abducted by the monk called Fahai, White Snake and Little Green hurried up to the monastery. In the meanwhile her husband had been spelt by the monk, persisting in his refusal to go home. White Snake was so desperate that she cried in tears. She was very furious and she used her magic to flood the monastery, however, she did not expect the people nearby were hurt as well by the calamity. Ultimately she and her husband' story was heard by the God, also touched Fahai. To release her husband, Fahai raised up two pre-conditions: firstly, Lady White must get rid of magic and bare buttocks spanked by a rod 300 smacks; secondly, she needs to be imprisoned in the white Snake Pagoda, she shall not come out unless Lake water dries. To set her husband free, White Snake resolutely agreed to the two conditions, but this was unacceptable to the young Little Green, she wanted to take the punishment in place of White Snake. But White Snake said slowly and definitely,

"My friend, it is I who brought disaster to these people, so I deserve the penalty.”

Her husband Xu Xian was removed memory by the monk and delivered home.

Now it was the execution day, the white snake was the immortal body, thus the spanking punishment might not hurt her a little bit. In order to make her suffer a real pain, she was asked by Fahai to intake a pill before the corporal punishment, and then she became an ordinary woman. Although she was now an immortal, she was still half divine body, so punishing tool was specially made. The paddle was made of a hybrid wood, immersed in water for forty-nine days, very tough. Ordinary people, even a man, cannot withstand a few smacks. After clearing of the field, they put a long wooden bench, which had four hoops around its four legs, a belt in the middle. Two strong monks, seeming very fierce, with big eyes, were responsible for the execution. The two men were bare armed, each hand holding a paddle about 1 meters and a half long, 8 cm wide, 5 cm thick. Fahai was surrounded by the entire monk.

"Take the Bai Suzhen here." he ordered.

There were two monks and a lady in white dress came to the bench. Missing so much of her husband Xu Xian, Suzhen looked a bit depressed. Her white clothes revealed her curvaceous body and plump, prominent buttocks. Suzhen leaned down facing the V shape bench. Two monks bound the lady's wrists and ankles on the four wooden legs with hoops around her limbs. Her blouse was lifted up, trousers were stripped down, she was a woman and this was such a humiliation that she frowned and blushed. Her private part--buttocks were naked and exposed in the daylight. Monks were very exhilarated, because this was their first time to see a woman's naked behind. Lady White did have a plump and round hip. Her waist was firmly bound to the wooden stool by belt, which made her buttocks more prominent and more attractive.

"Start." Fahai announced.

"Smack, smack." the paddle was dipped in the water and it smashed the lady's bare bottom. She had never suffered such a penalty, and she gasped and jerked.

"One, two." the monk counted.

"Smack, smack.” the flesh in the bare bottom went in and out with each smash of the paddle. Sharp sting came from behind across her bare cheeks. Blood began to spill out of her bare bottom; she could not help groaning up.

"Forty, forty-one." the paddle hit in the left cheek, without a stop then landed on the right side of the bottom. Lady White felt so miserable that she could not help wriggling her behind on the wooden bench. She could not help crying,

"I was wrong, I killed people, I beg you to spare me, and I cannot stand more.”

After 200 strokes, behold the lady's bottom, already bruise and bleeding, she fainted.

Seeing the lady unconscious, buttocks already bleeding, Fahai postponed another 100 strokes. However, Lady White would be flogged after the wound healed. Suzhen was transported to a small room, still in a coma. After a long time, Suzhen was revived, when she learned that there were 100 flogs to go, she could not help inhaling, but she loved her husband so much that she decided to accept the punishment bravely.

After one hundred Days, Suzhen was recovered, swollen buttocks returned to luster and creamy white. The thought of these beloved buttocks of her husband will be tortured once more, Suzhen felt somehow grievous. That day came and she was ushered to a ladder frame. Then her arms were twisted backwards and hands were tied on the behind then bound to the ladder. Her body was lying on the horizon of the ladder and her buttocks were leaning backward. Another monk removed her underwear to expose her plump ass in the air.  A number of paddle marks were still visible in her bottom due to previous spanking. The leathered lash was made of rhino skin, immersed in oil for seven days and nights, very resilient and tough.

"Carry out." Fahai announced.

"Smack." after a crisp sound, the lash smashed across Lady White's both bare cheeks and she gasped and could hardly inhale when the next one came.

"Smack, smack." Suzhen felt her behind splash out; the pain made her grit her teeth.

"My dear husband, do you know I am suffering this toil by the flogger." Suzhen said to herself.

”Smack." her body wriggled up and down with the lash's each blow, her black hair flying in the air. All of these made the monks more excited, they made more effort to whip Lady White's already fiery red ass. The lady felt as if her sore behind was bitten by a snake and she gradually lost consciousness.

"95, 96, 97, 98, 99,100.” One hundred consecutive whips made Suzhen’s bare bottom bleed like flower.

After the harsh corporal punishment, Suzhen was sent to the Pagoda, she lay on a bed with face down, where she would spend endless days until Xihu Lake could dry out.

For Chinese version, go here.