The next morning, the princess wakes up to find that her meal has not been poisoned. She asks Lin to bring her cat to her room so that she can rest. The princess tells the rabbit that she has to go to the emperor's palace to speak with him. She tells him that she will not be able to go with him because she has important business to attend to. The rabbit tells her that the emperor has sent her to the countryside because he knows that her life is in danger there. He asks her if she really wants to leave "hellish dongchang." The princess says that if her mother were alive, she would have never ended up in such a place