Ming tells his mother that if he doesn't kill the empress, he'll be mad. He wants to know what's going on with the yin family. Ming asks his mother if she wants to see him. She wants to meet him. Ming tells her that he's been bored lately, and that's why he has been killing people. He says that his mother was strict with him and never allowed him to visit her, but that she sends for him today and that she's very gentle to him. He tells his mom that he punished a maid for being disrespectful to him, and then he won't say anything about the maid who kissed him today. Ming says that he just wants to keep the maid alive for a while so that he can kill her.