The next morning, jiang asks why he has come to see him. jiang tells him that he has been thinking about their past, and that he was once a small imperial doctor who dared to follow the king and courtiers. He also tells jiang that when he became the "divine physician," he suddenly resigned and returned to his hometown. . He asks why jiang risked his life to save a peasant girl's life, and jiang replies that he didn't plan to save the girl, but that since he made jiang feel uneasy, he'll send the girl to her grave the next day. He says that he's not planning to exchange the life of a young marquis for that of a poor peasant girl, and he promises to make his son marry the girl right away.