Miss Lin arrives and tells the emperor that he has been poisoned by the poison cinabar. She tells him that the poison was given to the emperor by someone who had given him the poison in the past. Miss Lin also tells him about the case of female corpses in the jade mine. The female corpses were poisoned by a concubine named Pei Xian. The emperor must have heard about this case from the official, and he must have been suspicious of her. He is sure that she must have killed the female corpses because she is the main suspect in the case.