Two days later, Cai Binglan, daughter of the tu-shan king, announces that she is going to marry the gray wolf king's son-in-law, Miqiu refeng. The grey wolf king is trying to suppress the morale of the army, she says, and she is here to tell everyone that she was forced to marry him. She swears to her father, the emperor, and the officials that the only person she wants to marry in life is her senior, Zhang Kuangyun, who is not even mentioned in the novel. She begs her father to forgive her for making him watch her daughter die before him.