Episode 6

CIXI is impressed by LIAN-YING, so DE-HAI suggests that he should serve in the Chang Chun Palace, which is turned down by LIAN-YING. With regard to SIN YUNG's constant symptoms of nausea, each one in the Jing Ren Palace notices that she is bearing a child. However they persistently keep the secret for her since she is leaving the palace soon. While CIXI and Prince GONG stick with their own argument respectively on the issue of supplementing the Astronomy and Arithmetic Department, some conservatives are on CIXI's side, leaving Prince GONG's ambition simply wasted. Having recognized that SIN YUNG worries about her lover PAK-LUN, who marched to the battlefield, without knowing if he is alive or dead, LIAN-YING specially goes to the Military Office scouting out the whereabouts of PAK-LUN……