In this chapter, we learn that the Empress does not want to help the people in her village because she is afraid that they will be killed by the drought. She also refuses to help her family in the famine, which is caused by the Empress's refusal to help them. The spirit queen tells us that the real Empress is Fuqiu hanshan, who is the daughter of the prime minister. She tells the Empress not to waste her time with the snow clan because only one of the soldiers from the army is from that clan, and he has just gotten a pardon from the Empress. This is because the Snow clan is loyal to the Empress, and the Empress has betrayed her own family by betraying it. The doll tells the girl to go to the Front Gate and tell her father that she is being worried about her. The girl tells him that Miss yun has ordered the two of them to be executed for insulting her majesty, but one of them got the other's ears cut off. She wants the two girls to suffer the punishment of serving in the armies and having a miserable life