The Crystal Pavilion, for the Third Time Maomao is summoned by Shenlü, the clinic supervisor she met when she accompanied Ailan to the clinic. Apologizing to her for her attitude towards her the other day, she asks for help with a sick servant from the Wise Consort Lihua's pavilion, whose request for sick leave had been ignored by higher-ups despite showing symptoms of a contagious illness and has gone missing for half a month. As Maomao investigates, she and the doctor discover the missing servant locked in a shed, severely ill. Shin, Lihua's head lady-in-waiting, claims to have quarantined her there to prevent her illness from spreading...