FOU finds evidence that showing SHUN is murdered by the strategist of PEI. CAO takes her advice into serious consideration and believes the suspect is YI. CAO orders YIN to search for YI immediately. Meanwhile, HUANG delivers the message to PEI, so PEI hides YI in a secret place and escape from the search of CAO eventually.

CAO is sick because he is disappointed that PEI does not kill YI. In fact, FOU also finds the ambitious of YI is a threat; therefore, she argues with PEI again. HUANG is excited to learn their quarrels and is happy to know that their relationship has gone bad. ZHI and CHEUNG receive an urgent message from CAO and ask them to return home as soon as possible. YEE predicts that CAO would like to change his testimony, so all of them hack back at once.

CAO is seriously sick and forbids all interviews except FOU. He passes the imperial decree to FOU for changing the successor to ZHI……