One month after Ju Ho attacked and occupied Yujo, Yu Jayoung, who was a nephew of the past governor Yu Hyun, was arrested within the castle. Ju Ho ordered Jayoung to support him and blame Yu Hyun, but she rejected.
Ju Ho threatened her, "If you reject my order continuously, you will be executed by beheading in the charge of spying."
Without any hesitation, Jayoung responded.
"When will you decapitate me?"

In next day, in front of the main gate of the castle, Jayoung knelt down. Her upper body was made naked and tied by ropes which make X shape between two of her glamourous breasts. Between her back and ropes, a long wooden sign was put into. Above Jayoung's head, the letter '斬(beheading)', around which a red circle was painted, was explicitly shown. Under the letter, "Spy Yu Jayoung" was written.

The officer working as the executioner of Yujo had been working from the reign of governor Yu, so knew Jayoung. He had sympathy for her, so said to her.
"Lady, please forgive me to behead you today."
Jayoung answered.
"Why are you saying so? Why are you should be forgiven by me? You are the executioner, so your work is to decapitated death convicts. Today, I am here not as the nephew of the governor, but as a death convict. So, beheading me is just doing your work. You need not request to forgive to me at all."
She continued.
"If you have some sympathy for me, so wish to do something for me, please do just one thing to me. With your best skill, cut off my neck cleanly just at one stroke. I know that I should pay some money for such request, but I cannot pay anything now. Sorry."
The officer responded. "Lady, you need not be sorry to me, either. I will be sure to decapitate you cleanly, just at one stroke, as you requested."

The time was come. The supervisor read out the sentencing.
"Sinner Yu Jayoung. 18 years old. The nephew of traitor Yu Hyun. She did spying for traitor Yu Hyun, so we will execute her by beheading."
And he thrown a small sign, When the sign landed to ground, the small letter '斬', around which a yellow circle was painted, was exposed. The long wooden sign was pull out from Jayoung's back and thrown to the ground in front of her.

A helper gathered and grabbed the end of Jayoung's long hair in his hand, pulled her long hair forward. Jayoung obediently followed, with stretching her neck and ducking her upper body. Her glamourous breasts was being dangled under her upper body.
The helper stopped, and the officer lifted the executioner's sword high next to her neck.

As he promised, Jayoung's delicate and tender, white neck was cleanly cut off just at one stroke, and simultaneously, the helper released his hands and stepped aside. When Jayoung's decapitated head was flying in the air, some blood dropped to the wooden long sign.

The officer put Jayoung's decapitated head on a red color wooden plate, and took the plate to the desk of the supervisor. He reported, "Sinner, Spy Yu Jayoung, was executed by beheading!" The supervisor took a brush, and stamped one red dot to Jayoung's forehead, as the sign of finishing her beheading execution.

Jayoung's decapitated head was on display in front of the main gate of the castle, being inserted at the end of a sharp spear. Jayoung's headless body was thrown away out of the castle, but the officer who had decapitated her secretly brought her body and put into a coffin. The coffin was temporally buried at the back garden of the house of the officer.

Jayoung's decapitated head was continuously exhibited until her uncle Yu Hyun attacked and occupied Yu Jo again. Jayoung's brother Jahun, and her uncle, wept sadly when they saw Jayoung's decapitated face whose facial expression was just calm. Jayoung's decapitated head was sewn up the neck-cut stump, and buried in a sunny place.

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