The next morning, Ling is found dead in her room. She was found with a bloody stab wound to the back of her head. Ling is not the murderer, because he did not go to her room to kill her. He says that he went to the room to cheat her so that she would reveal her poker card to him. He then realizes that the poker card is the weapon that Lysander used to kill Ming. He realizes that this is the same weapon that he used to stab Ling. He also realizes that it is a gift from the emperor to his father, who used it to split mountains.