The dying KING misses the scent of the flowers from her home village terribly. To fulfill KING’s last wish, HO goes to look for the flowers in the royal garden...

After KING’s death, CHOI decides to destroy the phoenix hairpin as instructed by KWOK. Unwilling to see KING’s efforts go to waste, WAN means to injure herself...

Chief General MA YUEN-CHI is no longer trusted by the Emperor after making a mistake. CHEUNG who is deemed to be in the same league with him is also embroiled in the matter...

Japanese chess player ONIZUKA KOJIRO has come to China. KOJIRO sets a chess puzzle for the Chinese and Emperor MO CHUNG is so keen to solve the riddle that he keeps pushing his cabinet members for the answer...

Too desperate to recover his military power, CHI plans to kill HO and put the blame on KOJIRO, thinking that it may be a good way to please Emperor MO CHUNG...

YI finds out who is the secret loan shark inside the Palace. To protect his mother from any possible trouble, he pretends of knowing nothing but meanwhile offers HO a hint...

MO CHUNG goes hunting, during which he runs into YI and means to tease him for fun. Luckily YEUNG is there and he offers to help YI out of the predicament...

HA believes that it has been WAN’s life-long ambition to take away HO, so her hatred towards WAN is growing stronger and stronger...

CHI claims that ON has been having an affair with WONG’s handmaiden SAU-LIN. LIN cannot endure the harsh punishment and finally agrees to testify against ON...

MO CHUNG’s assassination plot against YI is thwarted while YEUNG has suffered a serious injury and faints away in the bamboo grove...

KWOK expresses strong opposition to YI’s accession to the throne during the coronation, saying that it is totally irrational to leave the country to the hands of a mentally retarded guy...

YEUNG and HO get attacked by an assassin in the royal garden. CHI shows up suddenly and arrests the couple on a charge of adultery...

The position of Head of Furnishings has been left vacant since the death of YAN. YEE-MAN who is desperate for promotion tries to please everyone around her...

KWOK suddenly arrives in the main hall with the spirit tablets of all the previous Tang emperors, in a deliberate attempt to force YI to abdicate...

As YI is about to tell HO about the imperial concubine selection, KWOK’s handmaiden KAM-LEUNG comes to assassinate the Emperor...

YI pays no attention to the government affairs and keeps fooling around all day long. Not wanting the Emperor to carry on like this, CHI decides to assign LING a new, respectable identity as the god-daughter of a general, which he hopes will facilitate the imperial concubine selection...

YEUNG sneaks into the Internal Service Bureau to search for clues but is injured by CHI’s men. And worse than that, he has left behind the jade ornament that the previous Emperor passed to his family...

Fearing that ON and YEUNG will reveal all the gruesome details of his crime sooner or later, CHI is keen to weed out ON insisting that the man should be sentenced to death...

CHOI has been ill for quite a while. She reveals that she would like to step down and that only the best candidates in terms of both ability and ethical rectitude will be considered for the post of Bureau Chief...

CHENG treats LING, YIN and PIK to dinner, during which PIK notices that YIN has a partiality for sour food, which makes her think that the girl may have been pregnant...

PIK is sentenced to death. YIN waits for YI at the Tortoise’s Tomb hoping that he will give in to her persuasion and overturn his verdict...

HA brings a present to CHEUNG’s place preparing to celebrate his birthday together with SHUN, but is astonished to hear that the man has fallen to his death accidentally...

Remembering how CHEUNG was killed by her mistress, FEI-YIN begins to shiver with fear...

Thrilled by YIN’s pregnancy, YI decides to declare an amnesty. YEUNG looks forward to ON’s release but CHI emphasizes that ON’s sin is too great to be forgiven...

PAK is found dead while ON is being in a coma. HO and YEUNG say their last farewell to ON. With YI’s permission, the pair can finally fulfill ON’s dying wish and get married...

WAN is sentenced to ten whips. Believing that WAN has framed him intentionally, SHUN decides to bribe the officer who is charge of the whipping of WAN...

YEUNG and FUNG are sad to hear that YUE, who was demoted earlier, has just passed away...

WAN admits that she is aware of the elopement of HO and YEUNG but meant to hide it from HA so as to save her from any possible trouble...

CHI is so unhappy with FUNG that he intends to take his life...

FUNG is shocked to discover that LING has been trying to harm YIN and her baby with various poisonous plants. Knowing that her plot has been thwarted, LING gets extremely furious...

Having forced YIN to drink the abortion potion, LING starts to reprove her. After that she has one further explosive secret to reveal to YIN...

HO is shocked to see CHENG lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Seconds later she is knocked out by LING. When she wakes up, she finds that CHENG has already passed away...

YI and a large force of troops march into the capital city while CHI is busy packing up for his escape...