The scene opens in the courtyard of the palace, where Cuirou and Lu xia have been ambushed. Cuirou tries to get the couple out of the courtyard, but they both refuse to leave. He tells her that she is the phoenix, and that she can live in the palace as long as she stays there. She tells him that she will discuss the situation with him once they leave the courtyard. The two women eat together, and Cuirou asks if she has eaten, and she says that she has. He asks her if she was the person who told him about the empress's imprisonment. She replies that she was only the one who knew about it. She says that her highness would never betray her.