Now that they're alone, it's time for the two of them to discuss what's been going on. Li-chen is still lying, and he's still trying to convince us that he killed himself. He's also trying to get us to believe that he was just faking his own death, and that he just wants to get back to his old life. But we're not fooled, and we find out that Li-Chen has been sleeping with the ghost of his dead lover, and is asking the ghost to help him kill the chancellor. We're also told that the ghost has been unable to sleep all night because of his grief over the death of his lover. He also tells us that, even if he were to die, he wouldn't be able to come back to the life he led before he was killed. We learn that, after his death, the