LUI returns to the magistrate’s office and is met by a wounded TING, who lies that her injury is inflicted by FUNG. FUNG urges LUI to leave the rank of the Brocade Guards, but LUI blames him for injuring TING and shoots him with his crossbow. FUNG is devastated. Back home, HO confronts TING for the role she played in SZEMA YEE’s death. TING admits to her accusation and informs a grieving Ho of her pregnancy. SHING delivers a decree to PO which orders his dismissal from the Directorate of Ceremonies and the Eastern Depot. PO is dumbfounded by the news. KAU begs TING to reconsider her marriage to LUI and offers to kill LUI to avenge for her. TING fabricates a lie on the spot and tells him that he is the father of the baby. LUI personally invites HO to attend his wedding but instead, the elder begs him to pardon TING. While waiting for HO, LUI is startled by the tablets that HO has set up for WONG YEE and YIU……