The spirit queen, the spirit queen of the palace, enters. She tells the king that she has seen a woman hiding in the dark in the palace courtyard. The other team has sent a message to the emperor, saying that a suspicious person was seen in the mountains behind the deserted house. The king wants to go and find the woman, but he is afraid that the empress will kill her if they find her. He asks his sister-in-law, Lingzhi, if she has anything to ask him. Lingzhi tells him that she came to the palace to serve the royal family and the foreign, and that she is always his most cherished friend. She says that Lingzhi has been suffering from the pain of the wound to her house. She asks her father why he doesn't allow her to save the house with her spirit power. He says that life and death are "a delicate balance" and that he will never use his power to interfere in the will of God. He tells her that he came to check on her because the emperor ordered the arrest of a traitor the night before. He has found the traitor, and he has to deal with him himself. He explains that he is the emperor of human after all, and it is not difficult for him to find scapegoats that will not leave any it is just a maid. There was another body and it seems that the court nanny has also committed suicide. She has almost all of her teeth gone. They decide to try their best to help each other.