The owner of the Zhen Tower invites Zang Hai to partner with her but he turns her down. Since she's a bit petty, she had Mr. Eight start a rumor about Zang Hai, endangering his life. Gifts sent to Zang Hai were converted to grains and fed the people in the Marquis' name. Zang Hai has full access to the Marquis's study and he finds the key to the last room he was unable to access earlier. It held the Marquis's trophies, revealing the depth of his depravity. As Zang Hai contemplates how to kill the Marquis, he is kidnapped by someone whose tools he recognizes. He takes a chance and reveals the scars on his back, which are recognizable to only 2 other people when he first got it and one of them have since died. And the other is now in front of him, a long lost friend whose goal is the same as his.