The empress wants to kill her husband, but she doesn't know how to do it. The eunuch is too powerful, she tells him, and he can't even beat an eyelid. The only way to stop him is to kill him. He tells the empress that he has a request: when his father died, the dowager took back his six hundred feudal possessions. Now that he's in Dongchang, he needs food and clothes. He begs her to give him back all of his feudal possessions so that he can stand a chance at killing her. She tells him that she gave him a flask of the poison, and she wants him to use it so that she can let her guard down on him. The poison is not a problem, he says, because he hasn't had an opportunity to use the poison yet. He asks her to take a walk with him, so that they can talk. He says that he wants to protect himself from the do-wager and from the enemy. The two of them are very difficult to fool, he tells her.