With Keiun's assistance, Koyou has successfully infiltrated the palace. Her mission? Treat the empress's illness without Consort Ro or her faction finding out about it! But with the empress stubbornly hiding all her symptoms, a diagnosis by the young doctor seems almost impossible. That is, until an unexpected ally comes to her aid! Meanwhile, refugees from the fallen kingdom of Nankin are in the capital looking for their fellow countryman, Singdam. Have they come to bring him home after all these years? Or does their arrival signal something more nefarious?