CHUNG prefers fighting for the throne than fighting HIN with LING. SAI CHUNG takes NI to Chang’an to work under YUEN and hopes to use his power to resurrect his political standing. Having MAN manage the Imperial Court for him, YUEN can go traveling now. NI succeeds in seducing YUEN. YAT SUM disappears with the He Shi Jade. CHING WAI guesses that he has seen the prophecies inside the jade and is meditating. CHI has gone to Yangzhou, where she first met CHUNG to re-live the good times they had together. She loses her purse and ends up wandering on the street. MAN goes undercover to spy in FA’s territory. He meets CHI there and she is glad to leave the street. CHUNG overcomes his arrogance to look for CHI. He is jealous when MAN is intimate with her. She uses MAN to annoy CHUNG, but he pretends to be calm. MAN has loved her for a long time, but knows that she loves CHUNG. MAN exposes the fact that CHUNG loves CHI, but he denies it.