First of all, I think the protagonists of these two stories are very similar. They were both women and betrayed by their lover. In the story of punishment, Chandara loves her husband, and she knows she is different than her sister in law. Also, her husband is not like Dukhiram. She knows her husband is charming, and there has a lot of eyes on her husband. From chapter 2, ” They quarreled sometimes, but there was  mutual respect too:neither could defeat the other.” I can know they love each other. When Chidam tells her to admit murder, she is dumbfounded. She can’t believe her husband could ask her to do this thing.  She feels betray, and from the ending, I can know she lose her trust on her husband, even though, Chidam tries to save her, there is no one would believe him. Chidam should know that murder is not an easy thing to get avoid, and he put his wife’s life in danger. After all, I can know the result of Chandara is death by the hanging. The other side, Du Tenth, she loves Li Jia, but in the end, she finds out Li Jia has betrayed her. Li Jia wants to sell her to get money and back to home to see his father. And Du Tenth can’t afford this betray, so she jumps into the river, and dead. Li Jia and Chidam betray their wives for the family, but Du Tenth and Chandara choose a wrong way to end the thing they have to face. I think Du Tenth and Chandara have similar destinies. They can’t choose their own lives, they have to listen to their husband’s arrangement. These two stories can reflect the social status of women. Their husband helps them to make the decision, no matter it would hurt them or not.