The next morning, the young woman tells the prince that she is going to run away from Zhejiang. She tells him that her father's body is still on the altar, and that no one has restrained it. She says that she has to go back to collect the body for her father and her grandfather, who are about to be freed from prison. The prince asks her if she knows that she will be caught, and she says she does not. He tells her that the emperor wants to see her.