When Linghu explodes his golden core, he kills the girl and her fiance. The girl tells her father that she was the daughter of a prime minister and that her sister wanted to marry her and join hands with another mother to ruin her. When her fiance heard of the news, he canceled their engagement and her father drove her from the house. She tells him that if he hadn't rescued her, she would be buried in the forest. Linghu tells the girl that they can find her and kill them together. He also tells her that the four colleges can't interfere with the emperor's power dispute.