This chapter opens with the ghost girl, Miss Su li, telling the eunuch, jiu, to stand up for the princess and not to act so disrespectful toward her. The two of them enter the palace together, and Miss Su tells jiu that the king has asked her to come to the palace. jiu tells her that he has already taken her into the palace, and that he will leave her alone. The king asks her why she didn't wipe her face when she first came to see him, and she tells him that she did it on purpose. She says that she was offended by the marquis's rudeness, and the king is glad that she is speechless. He asks her to get close if she will serve him right, and he says that he might be happy to let her be his concubine