The third prince and vice minister lord are in the middle of a conversation when they are interrupted by the sixth prince. The sixth prince asks the third prince if he is still mad at what happened the last time he saw his sister. He tells him that she was disfigured and had escaped marriage before, and that she smells good. He asks why she likes it so much, and the second prince answers that it smells good because it is the disguise technique of the witch people from Liaozhou. He also says that the prince's third brother asked the emperor for permission to marry her five years ago, but that she would have been kept in the dark about the marriage until the day of the wedding. He says that he is afraid that the family will have him spied on again and that he will run away again. The seventh prince says that it is not proper for him to see his sister now, as she is his friend, and furthermore, he is here. The prince asks if she still has the flower that she gave him at the poet's party, and she says that she threw it away because it was not good. She asks the seventh prince to take it away and throw it away, but the prince refuses to do so, saying that he does not like people touching her things