This chapter opens in the eastern palace, where the emperor is resting. He asks the doctor how things are going with the emperor. The doctor tells him that everything is going well, but that they still need to find a prescription for the poison. He tells the doctor to make sure that Cong-Guen and Luo-Yanyu come to him, and to send twenty guards. The emperor asks if he can dismiss the doctor, and the doctor says yes. He then tells the emperor that he wants to tell him the whole story of how the two men planned to kill him. He says that he has never thought about so many things happening, and that he cannot wait to tell the story to him. When the doctor asks him why he is in his room, the emperor says that it is not his room but that of another man. The man is drunk, and