Lin Wan returns to the country and takes up residence with the Huo family. Taking advantage of the male lead’s refusal to believe in the supernatural, she carefully lays her plans, sabotaging the female lead’s feng shui ornament before pretending to fall ill from being frightened by “unclean things.” She hints that the female lead has used a little ghost to harm her. Then she throws herself down the stairs, clutching the female lead’s “substitute talisman,” and tearfully accuses her of cursing her to die a horrible death.