Miss Zingzhou and her father have returned to the family estate. Zingzhou tells her that she is now a young lady, and that she has grown into a concubine of her father. He laments that his younger cousin cannot watch her grow up. He says that he will never refer to his mother as her "mom" because she took his grandfather's house and turned it into a mansion for the Gu family. He also says that his mother gave birth to twin daughters earlier than his mother. He tells his daughter that she must pretend to be submissive and obedient so that her mother will keep her in the house longer. He invites her to have dinner with him.