The emperor is sending his son-in-law, chu, to attack southern China. The couple is engaged, but the wedding has been postponed again. Worried about his wife's strange behavior at the tournament, the emperor asks chu if she is giving him "motherly love." Worried that the emperor's army is waiting for them at the city gates, the couple tries to make sense of the situation. The emperor tells chu that he once said that he wanted to become a queen, but his actions do not scream "wild ambition" . Believing that his obsession with the emperor is beginning to get on his nerves, he suggests that they reconsider their relationship. He says that he does not think he is "attractive enough" to have made her fall in love at first sight, and that he has no special bond with him. He asks if the emperor has put him before the throne, and chu replies that he thinks they both know that answer. The second prince is a different person than he was in the past, and the house is protected by the elite unit of the mi army