The next morning, the newly-minted bride-to-be wakes up to find that her concubines are laughing at her for being so different from them. She tells them that she has grown up with guns, swords, and playing instruments, but that she is not feminine enough to be a concubine in the palace, so they have taught her to embroider, play the piano, and draw. She says that men like feminine women, and that she should learn more of these things since she has been reborn as han shang. He tells her that he has completed his "mandarin duck" and that he will soon sew on his own wedding gown. When she asks him why he wants to learn such things, he replies that he only wants to do what other women do. He says that when he is thinking of her, he will be happy, even when he does something he does not like. He asks her if it is still their wedding day, and she says that it is not yet. She asks if they should save the embroidery for their wedding to make it memorable.