The narrator tells us that he is the illegitimate child of his sixth uncle, who has been traveling all over the world. He asks the child's father to bring the boy back to him, but the boy's blood has fused with his father's, making him an illegitimate child. The narrator explains that he has been using this trick for a long time, but that it is too dangerous for the second prince to know about it. He tells the child that his mother has died of illness, and that no one will ever know her identity. The child, he says, is an orphan, and no one knows his identity. He says that he went out of his way to find the child, but he suspects that he killed his family. The baby's mother has been sent away to the queen's office of punishment, but she insists that she is the queen herself, not the concubin. The infant is not allowed to leave the palace, and the narrator says that the queen will not interfere in the matter. He adds that every time he sees the baby, he thinks of his elder sister, who died when he was a child. He wishes he had seen her before she died.