The next morning, fei tells her mother that she has seen the prince's son, jidong, punished for breaking the princess' favorite vase. Worried that he is the illegitimate son of her mistress, she demands to know why he is being punished. fei explains that he has brought the prince to her house because the prince does not care for his children. He has so many mistresses that he does not even care about his own children. The prince has brought jidong to fei's house so that he will not have to deal with any of his mistresses. He also tells fei that the ji family has been involved in a mutiny in which 300 of their soldiers were killed overnight, and fei knows that anyone connected to the family will be killed. .