The emperor wakes up in his bedchamber. The empress tells him that the emperor has had a stroke and that he's going to be paralyzed for life. The emperor's daughter chu yin tells the empress that her father rong shi is not her real father. She was sold into a brothel by an uncle and fell in love. However, her beauty made her wife jealous, so she was brought into the palace. In order to save her lover, she went to ask the concubine for help. She didn't get any favors from the emperor, but she did know that she had to hold power. She had to have a child, and she gave birth to a son, who was named rong shuan. .