The duke asks the princess to come along with him. He tells her that xiang is seriously injured and that he can't continue to annoy him anymore. He asks her to drink the gu poison that he gave her when she first came to the turks. The duke says that since he returned to the west, he hasn't poisoned her with the poison, despite his mother's threats to do so. He says that if he had wanted to have sex with her, he'd have done it right away. The princess says that she's broken up with xiang, and the duke asks her why she doesn't give him a chance. She says that as soon as he tricked her into believing that he was the duke, she would have no choice but hatred for him. She's not able to get her mother to love him either, so she'll have to fight him alone.