Siblings Shouxue came to return the shawl to Qin Huiyao, the Magpie Consort, as Feng Xiao Xue simply vanished into a room. According to her, after failing to ask that favor from Shouxue, Xiao Xue appeared before her and allegedly was able to fulfil her wish of bringing her dead elder brother to life by the use of some sorcery involving a bit of her brother's hair and some dirt. Searching for the clay doll which Huiyao thinks is her brother, they enter a room and come across buckets of what looks like human blood; and find Wen Ying inside, unconscious but alive. Huiyao tries in vain to stop them simply because she's weak and Shouxue can smell him, or rather his clay doll zombie...