The queen's mother scolds changning for being so useless in the past. She wonders if she is hiding something from the queen. . The queen asks if guang lin is worthy of being the first princess of the new country. He replies that he will be in guang's hands soon. He tells her that he knew she would be waiting for him here. He is happy after the show he has seen today, he tells her. He says that he loves her, and they will buy wine and meat for the next time they go to market so that he can ask guang to cook him a feast. he says that huan lun was just executing his orders. there is no harm, just for one time. the queen says that they should go buy some food and wine and enjoy the snow. she says that she does not know much about guanglin's methods of fighting, but she does know that the queen noticed something earlier in the palace. she must have called liang to the palace, at a time when the queen was competing with the empress for the position of the minister of war. she made liang enter the palace so that she could help the queen take control of concubines, the emperor, and the conjugals. she pawns zhi and thun liang are both martial art prodigies, her pawns are both military arts pawns. her real strength, she says, is far greater than what they saw.