The next morning, jingtian realizes that he is a suspect in the murder of his wife. He apologizes to tan yilin and tells her that he will go to the Dongxi palace. He tells her not to worry, because he has only three wives in the whole country. She tells him that she has been loyal to the emperor for five generations, and that if he does not kill the woman, the country will fall. She says that she would rather die than see the country fall because of her husband's disloyalty. She compares him to a "muddle-headed monarch" who will bring ruin to her country. . she says that in this world only a woman is allowed to be the emperor, and she tells him to execute the woman. She adds that the woman has a "superpower" that will unite the two countries, and if she does not die, they will all be destroyed. She calls on the emperor to take her to the court to be questioned.