The next morning, Lin learns that her grandmother has refused to let her in. She asks her mother to find an expert to wash away her bad luck, but her grandmother refuses to believe her. She blames her mother for the deaths of six people, but she refuses to blame herself for the accident. Lin tries to convince her grandmother to let him go to the jade mine in the morning, but the grandmother refuses. She tells her sister that the prince is worried about her, but that he should not worry about her because she will not die until she is nineteen