The Prince Regent's Concubines

The chapter opens with a conversation between the grandmother and her granddaughter. The grandmother tells her granddaughter to have her sisters have their own "fun" so that they don't disturb her. She also tells the granddaughter to take a look at the hairpin on the big sister's head. The granddaughter thinks it's a "rare and also a tribute" to the emperor, so she gives it to her sister. She tells her sister to take the hairpin too, and they're all "a family" if they just take it. This is the first time she's won a prize in a fight, and she wants to prove to her sisters that she really is a "fool" . She asks the granddaughter if the investigation is going well, and the granddaughter tells her that they've already seen her fall into the river. She then tells her grandmother that she got the hairpin first, but the grandmother doesn't believe her, and tells her to let her go. She's shocked to learn that the fight didn't last long, and that the family had to break up because of a misunderstanding.