The spirit queen tells the spirit queen that she can still take her life before she even notices it. She tells her sister-in-law that they are still being surrendered by enemies and that she cannot tell whether she is trying to appease their struggle or just help the emperor. She says that it is not her turn to speak, but that the snow king decides whether she should shut up. She asks him if he thinks she can have a life by leaving him. He replies that she is so proud of being his servant that her hand hurts. He says that he has found clues about black viper poison in the daily records of emperors in the human race. He tells her that he hates it when he sees agility in her face. He explains that the human clans history is only a thousand years long. Some of them lasted for decades while others lasted for 200 years. He also says that famine will sway a new dynasty and thus cause internal wars. He adds that dynasties will rise and fall due to natural disasters like drought and famine. He asks her to borrow him for a few days.