
Her death eventually turned the young man's heart towards joining Simoun's plans for revenge. Basilio learns of her death through Sinong. She ends up dead by jumping off the window when she escaped the friar's attempt to rape her. She is aware of the curate's lust for her but ends up going to the priest for help. When Basilio becomes imprisoned, Hermana Bali, a neighbor, advised her to beseech the help of the Padre Camorra. Juli eventually learns of the students that were sent to jail.

However, the locket comes to the hand of her father who gives it to Simoun in exchange for a revolver.

She would rather render domestic services instead of selling the locket that once belonged to Maria Clara and was paid by the leper to Basilio who in the end gave it to her. She was not sent to Manila to study and works as a maid for Hermana Penchang when her family falls into debt defending their father from unjust charges and ransom from the bandits. She becomes a victim of circumstances when her father becomes a cabesa and had to shoulder heavy debts imposed on them by the congregation. Juli is the main female protagonist in the novel. She is the embodiment of purity and innocence, reminiscent of Maria Clara in the previous novel, only poor. Juli is described as a loving daughter and a faithful fiancee.
