Hailancha smiles at embroidered band that Mingyu gifted him. The king sees and amuses himself with Hailancha, discussing about women and their petty gifts of love. The king receives a fur hat from Wei and this makes the king a hypocrite, causing even more amused chatter.
Erqing is sick of being confined in the temple and decides to attend the silk ceremony that all the dukes and duchesses are invited to, totalling hundreds of attendees. Erqing is led by brother to the late empress's shrine where Wei and Mingyu await her. Erqing angrily spills out her emotions about being jealous of Wei and the Empress. She did send the final blow by telling the late Empress of her affair with the king and being pregnant. It made the queen give up all hope and suiciding.
Wei makes Erqing kill herself and the king comes to the temple in search of Wei. He is shocked and Xian arrives as well. Xian offers to cover up this ordeal.
We see a flashback of the king waking up to find Erqing with her long hair let down, buttoning herself up. He asks her what she was doing and Erqing admits she was feeling lonely with Fuheng's coldness and went to see Empress who was pregnant and uncommunicative. She came here and the Emperor was drunk. She knows she sinned and shows she is about to stab herself with a hairpin. The king stops her and tells her to leave.
Erqing is sick of being confined in the temple and decides to attend the silk ceremony that all the dukes and duchesses are invited to, totalling hundreds of attendees. Erqing is led by brother to the late empress's shrine where Wei and Mingyu await her. Erqing angrily spills out her emotions about being jealous of Wei and the Empress. She did send the final blow by telling the late Empress of her affair with the king and being pregnant. It made the queen give up all hope and suiciding.
Wei makes Erqing kill herself and the king comes to the temple in search of Wei. He is shocked and Xian arrives as well. Xian offers to cover up this ordeal.
We see a flashback of the king waking up to find Erqing with her long hair let down, buttoning herself up. He asks her what she was doing and Erqing admits she was feeling lonely with Fuheng's coldness and went to see Empress who was pregnant and uncommunicative. She came here and the Emperor was drunk. She knows she sinned and shows she is about to stab herself with a hairpin. The king stops her and tells her to leave.