After drinking the porridge, he drags off to see his dad. He's worried about what's going to happen to him now that he's back in the palace. His dad tells him that the Grand Master has always been jealous of him for taking away the authority from her. The Grand Master's journal says that he kept a journal about the search for the treasure of the western Turks, so it's possible that the reason he didn't tell his dad about the treasure is because he was worried about the danger he'd be in if he found the treasure. He tells his dad that he can protect him too, but that this also means that someone is trying to attack him. Three days later, he says, the tower will open and he'll be in the jungle pushing the tower against the jungle wall. He doesn't want to worry about the princess, because she's already married to her third brother. The next lady, he tells her, has been asked to send him porridge, and he gets it. He asks her to come back, but she refuses, saying that she was asked to stay away from him on purpose.