SHUI takes YAU to a hotel. He points out to YAU that SUN has been scheming to separate her from him. YAU explains that she does not get with SUN for love but for responsibility, and that it is SHUI whom she truly loves and wants to marry. She feels utterly confused now that she is caught in such a bizarre love triangle. SHUI reveals that he was so desperate to protect YAU that he decided to plead guilty in the first place, but that her marriage to SUN has just come as a huge blow to him, leaving him drifting alone in sheer agony. He asks YAU to go back to Guangzhou with him, and in a frenzy of ecstasy, the pair finally give in to temptation and have sex. SUN remembers that SHUI has once mentioned YAU’s father for no reason. Realizing that something may have gone wrong, he goes up to OI WAH asking about the files on KWAI FOOK-TSUEN’s case……