At the beginning of this chapter, the young man is still in love with the young woman, but he has lost his love for her. He tells her that he is not waiting for her to marry him either, and that he has turned into a drunkard. The young man tells the woman that she should not make trouble anymore, because she had killed a man who was a good person. He also tells her about the emperor, who has been pretending to be "muddleheaded." The emperor's brother-ling once ordered the emperor to write a decree on the king's behalf, and the emperor had promised not to do anything about it. The emperor must think of the past relationship, he says, and he will go to the emperor and beg him to release him. He says that the emperor hopes that he will be able to kill the man, but that the man must have thought of the decree with him before, so the emperor moved him from the palace to the changle palace, and turned his belongings over. He asks the woman to accompany him to the mountains tomorrow, and she agrees.