The next morning, the innkeeper is awakened by the sound of a knock at the door. The innkeeper tells his servant that he has a serious back injury and that he will not let him leave the hotel. He tells the servant that rong-ling has gone after yue and that she has run away. He asks the innkeeper to change his medicine so that xiaoli can be carried to the hospital. He then tells the innkeeper that he is the one who has stitched up the marks on the pearl, and that someone else has also done the same thing. He says that he was the person who copied his way of curing the marks. He also says that since he is related to yue, he is afraid that he cannot let her stay at the hotel any longer. When the innkeeper asks if the mysterious lord of the pavilion helped him, he replies that he did not bring the lord to the hotel, so it is really yue. He goes on to say that he does not trust the pavilion lord, and when the innkeeper says that she is leaving to go back to the pavilion, he tells her to leave.