GENGYAO is degraded by YINZHEN and he becomes a soldier. He wears the imperial yellow jacket that YINZHEN gave him to show everybody that YINZHEN is an ungrateful man. YINZHEN needs to leave the palace for ancestor worship and MO-SUET stays in the palace alone. YINZHEN's mother is being told that MO-SUET is harming YINZHEN with witchcraft and she punishes MO-SUET by sending her to the temple. YINZHEN finds MO-SUET suspicious. When he realizes her secret, he is heart-broken. When YINZHEN is alone, YINSI tries to attack him but MO-SUET stops him. YINZHEN's mother learns that MO-SUET is collaborating with YINSI. LONGKODO tells her that MO-SUET had tried to kill KANGXI and YINZHEN's mother decides to kill MO-SUET. As advised by SZE-TO, YINZHEN decides to go out in midnight to rescue MO-SUET but his mother stops him. MO-SUET has died and YINZHEN is extremely angry and sad.