Zhou Laoliu passed away from illness, watching his son eagerly anticipate his death with bitter resentment. The Judge, noting he had committed no great evil, permitted him to be reborn as a human named Zhousheng. Forgetting his past life, Zhousheng suffered oppression from youth, and after starting a family, failed to show compassion for his wife and children. He fell into gambling and accumulated massive debts, going so far as to mortgage his wife to a gambling house for self-preservation. Unable to bear the humiliation, his wife committed suicide, and his son also left him. Zhou Laoliu died a miserable death and returned to the netherworld, only to realize that both lifetimes were his own. Because of his grave faults, the Judge sentenced him to fall into the animal realm, ultimately reincarnating as a pig.