In this chapter, we learn that the second prince, wang-jing, was the illegitimate child of the first prince, guifei-yu. When the emperor married his first wife, he left the harem without having many heirs, so he castrated all of his children and enslaved everyone under the age of thirteen. The zhou clan's property was confiscated, and every woman was enslaved and every child was castrated, enslaved, and castrated. Four years later, the prince died, and the prince's son, huan-xiao, was made the heir to the throne. Worried that the prince will look exactly like the young master, the women decide to have the doctor tweak the duck's appearance to make it look like the prince.