Back in the palace, the queen scolds her son for being caught in the crossfire between the empress and her daughter-in-law. The queen asks her son why he has been summoned to the palace so soon after the emperor canceled the prince's engagement to his sister. The son says that he will leave the matter to the emperor. He then tells the queen that he has broken his engagement to the princess because the princess is not rich enough to marry the prince. The king canceled the engagement because he was in love with the princess, but the queen says that she will find someone else for him to marry. She then tells him that his sister, the princess changle, has also come to visit her. The mother scolds the son for not being able to get the princess to marry him. She also scolds him for falling in love so easily with an evil woman.