Beauty Amid the Flames of War - Episode 10

Someone reveals they implanted a sub-parasite on another, explaining the heirloom parasite links main and sub so damage to the sub will kill the host in forty-nine days and the main parasite multiplies pain tenfold. The speaker spares the target for now but promises death on day forty-nine. At the Hall of Virtue His Majesty arrives as a man demands whether the woman he slept with is among summoned maids. Officials deny seizing her and say they sent the maids away. The episode ends with the forty-nine-day death clock started and the palace inquiry unresolved.