The emperor is shocked to learn that the concubine has gone missing. He is also shocked to hear that the maid who had brought her meal has said that she hasn't seen her since this morning. The emperor wonders if it is someone from the Xiao mansion who has smuggled her out of the palace. The eunuch who had seen her in the pavilion tells the emperor that he saw her there. He rushes to find her, but she is too dizzy to move. She tells him that she has heard that he tried to escape by climbing the wall and that she stopped him from telling others that he had tried to do the same. She says that he looks like he has made up his mind about marrying the emperor, and that he is mad at her for taking her to the emperor the last time. She also says that the emperor might think that the marquises are behind the disappearance. She asks why he changed his mind so suddenly, and the emperor says that it looks like she has decided to marry him. He says that she looks like her mother, the emperors birth mother.