Beauty Amid the Flames of War - Episode 4

Someone enters a palace wing long deserted for fifteen years and is caught in a forbidden chamber. Guards seize a woman accused of being an assassin; she insists she is 'the woman of Extreme Cold' summoned for His Majesty. Court gossip spreads that the emperor has found and slept with that woman and Physician Gale's daughter Vivian remains missing despite Shadow Guards' searches. A court elder orders a brazier of Bliss Powder sent to the emperor 'to add to his pleasure.' The episode closes with the claimed identity unproven and Vivian's fate unresolved, forcing immediate court decisions.