In the middle of the night, the empress asks the grandmother how she will reward the monk for worshipping the Buddha in Mount Juhua. The grandmother says that she will not reward him for his worship of the Buddha because she has been living in the capital for three months. She tells the grandmother that she has obtained a new medicine that will help her to counteract the effects of General Lin's anti-aging medicine. The empress tells her that the magistrate did not catch the mastermind and that the two people who committed suicide in jail have committed suicide to escape punishment. She says that the woman who bought the life of the mastermind would do the same to anyone who tried to get too close to the general. She adds that the general has told them to send gifts to the doctor, but they do not want to do so because they know that the princess likes the general very much. She warns the grandmother not to develop feelings for the general because she knows that if she does, her mother will die