JIAQING orders PRINCE YONGLIN to parade HELIN through the streets, seeking to force HESHEN to save him. Unfortunately, the plan doesn’t work out well, and PRINCE YONGLIN returns in failure. Judging the situation, HESHEN decides to let CHANG MEI leave the capital as soon as possible and return to her hometown in Jiangnan to settle down, to which CHANG MEI agrees in tears. Military commander QI JIN escorts the evidence for SHEN CHU, who died in the line of duty, but is once again attacked by DOUKOU and the others. Meanwhile, HESHEN meets up with DORJI again in secret, asking him to send his Mongol troops to help free HELIN. When JIAQING goes with ROYAL NOBLE CONSORT to visit CONSORT XIAN, CONSORT XIAN surprisingly takes advantage of the fact that she has conceived the Emperor’s baby, asking ROYAL NOBLE CONSORT to give her a massage. LIU QUAN escorts CHANG MEI to set off for her destination, but they are attacked by masked men!