The next day, the doctor tells his wife that he will perform an acupuncture on the emperor. He tells her to tell her stepmother about the plan to steal the coffin of his dead sister. He also tells her that he has invited the emperor and the concubine to come to his house for tea. He wants to know why they are coming together. The doctor says that his sister is resting in the emperor's house, and she wants to be with him forever. He says that the emperor is only able to preserve one thing, the coffin, because her body has not yet turned into ashes. He asks the doctor if he knows the mutually of stealing the coffin from his sister's body and using it as a pawn to get into the possession of the emperor