This scene opens with a conversation between the king and his wife. The king tells his wife that he has sent gifts to his concubine, and she is happy to receive them. She asks the king if he has rewarded her in the harem before, and the king replies that it is the first he has ever done so. He asks her if she is so beautiful that he is falling in love. She replies that the ministers are starting to get restless seeing that he doesn't have a lot of interest in women. He says that he had planned to find her as his cover, but now he wants something good to come out of the prank. She begs the king to give her a reward for the drugging she took, and he replies that he hasn't even made her pay for it. She says that if the king completes the task, she will forget about it. He tells her that he wants to let everyone know about this, but she asks if he means the current princess in his harem is really a fake. He admits that she is, but he says that she had made soup for his body to replenish his. She tells him that the king is favoring the ninth princess, but