Sima Yan's wife suggested that he find Xue Renyi and tell him the whole truth, as the Sima family was the one in the wrong against Xue Renyi in the first place.
But the concubine's daughter and her mother knelt on the ground, crying and wailing, saying that she had already been intimate with Xue Renyi. If she couldn't marry Xue Renyi, she would end her life with a white silk scarf, which infuriated Sima Yan's wife. She didn't want to deal with the matter any longer, worried about gaining a reputation for mistreating and forcing a concubine's daughter to death, which would affect her three sons in the future.
