Mu Yangling returned to the carriage and held her head in her hands as she pondered the matter. In the end, she decided to come clean.
She wrote to Fan Zijin, confessing to him that although she had succeeded in bringing his wife out, she also made his father so angry that he vomited blood.
Then, she wrote to Qi Haoran and clued him in on the fact that she had angered Fan Siwen to the point of vomiting blood. She asked him to put in a good word for her in front of Fan Zijin.
When handing the letters to the guard responsible for delivering them, Mu Yangling specially instructed, "Send the letter to the general first. Only after he opens the letter do you send the Military Advisor's letter over."
However, Fan Zijin had actually received a detailed report of the incident while Mu Yangling's letter was still on the way, including the conversation between Mu Yangling and Madam Xia.