CHAN ran into WEN on the street but failed to make contact with WEN.

CHIU was the daughter of a once famous MANCHU family. Her father JING had CHIU and son TEH, a useless person. TEH wanted to gain wealth and power by forcing CHIU to marry a powerful Ching official MAN. But CHIU hated MAN for being a corrupted government official. CHIU moved to the temple to avoid MAN. There she met CHAN again.

LEUNG saw CHAN and CHIU joking around in the temple and gave them a scolding.

Meanwhile, WEN was having a secret meeting with his fellow rebels in a "lady's house". The meeting was known to MAN who led his troops to arrest them. WEN managed to escape again.

CHAN and some other students discovered irregularities with the county examinations. YEH used his troops to break up the students protest and banned CHAN from the examination. CHAN was depressed and got drunk over the incident and was captured by some beggars.