Enslavement befell the extravagant wife and unfilial children. Baldassarre escapes into the Duomo, where he swears revenge on his unfilial adoptive son. The eldest daughter lives in a wealthy household with servants, but she is completely unfilial. Slaves were often adopted, and if they proved unfilial, were reduced to slavery again. Zhu Xi strongly discourages cremation of one's parents' corpses as unfilial.