"Clack thump" , says the prince, is still alive. He's still a prince, he says, even if he's been "abjected" . He wants to know what's going on. He asks if he can speak now. He says he'll take hongyi's things and her coffin. He doesn't think she'll live to see him die. The prince says he can't protect a woman, because he can only fight half-heartedly. He reminds the prince that he fought for the throne when he returned to China, but left it empty when he died. He tells the prince to remember the second time he fought, when he asked him to look after him, but he didn't really need him at all. The second time, the prince says, he asked to repay him, and he asked the prince not to care for yuesheng, because hong-yi was his older sister. . the prince asks if the second brother would have been willing to pay for the sufferings he'd gone through with his mother, if he could have stopped his mother from poisoning her, and made her mute. He also asks the prince what he could do if his brother had told him. He suggests that the prince treat his sister well if he knew that she was his sister, and treat her like a concubine, but she wouldn't want him to do that because she's his sister. She wants him to treat her well because she is his. She's just one of many women around him