When the "sons of bitches," as they are called, make Su get angry, a "cuju rolls to Su's feet" . Su wakes up to find that the cuju has been "torn into six pieces" , and that the guests are going to tear her into "nothing left." Su tells her father that he has been working for the royal family for three generations and that he is loyal to the royal, but that he also has to care for his family. He tells her that there are a lot of men who want to marry her at her birthday party, and she tells him that she just wants to be filial and take care of her father at home. The empress has recently chosen three of her concubines to be her mistresses, but she is still choosing the final one