The emperor and zheng come to see how the wounded moyun is doing. The emperor tells lianhua that the moyun has been seriously injured, but that she will be fine. He tells zheng that if he had not lost his sister in the crowd, she wouldnt have run away from the sob. He says that he would have believed him, too, if he hadn't seen him promising the outlaws that he'd lure them into his trap. . He kneels down and tells the emperor that he is innocent of the whole thing. He also says that if the so-called outlaws had seen him talking to them, they wouldn't have been so bold as to try to trap his sister. He asks zheng to find out who the criminal is after moyun regains consciousness. The prince says that they can't convict her without any evidence, and that if she ever plots to trick others, she'll be hanged by her own petard