The mansion is searched and all its property confiscated. The only member of the family who escaped was lianer, who was eventually caught by the qinghuai pavilion and sold to them. . After five failed attempts to escape, . half of his own body was red with his blood. He decided to change his name to honglian. He feels that he is not worthy of the woman he loves, and he wants her to leave him. He tells her that . he and . she have been lovers for a long time, and that they have reached a "dead end" many years ago. He asks her to pretend that he died long ago, and she does so. She pretends that she loves . and that she wants to marry him. She tells him that she is sorry that she has not seen the good in this present time. She reminds him that when they were children, they used to play a game where they would attach a toy horse to a lantern and attach red paper symbols to the horse. They would pretend to be groom and groom, and then they would leave the symbols in the lantern and leave everything to . She says that this is the first time she has done this in her life. She also tells him to respect their parents, and to give as much respect as they can to those who have come to the pavilion.