The ghost of the dead prince asks the ghost of Yuqi why he is in Yuqi. The ghost says that Yuqi's empress raised him, and that she has given him some medicines. Yuqi is the empress of the north, and she is the one who raised him. The two of them ride on a horse together, and Yuqi tells the ghost that he rescued him from his mother's poisoned body because he wants to keep control over them. The scorpion poison in his body is difficult to remove, Yuqi says, because his mother is the "top master of poison" in the world. The only way to save his life, he says, is to reveal his identity and his crime of murdering the prince. He tells Yuqi that he has prepared his "baggage" for him in case he needs to travel to the west coast of France. The horse Yuqi picked up for him is a blood-spattered one, and the ghost says he forgot to tell him that the horse has a "blood phobia" .