The King's object of favor is then a concubine named Cao Kim Liên who is beautiful and talented as a dancer. Initially apprehensive of Chung Vô Diệm, she grows increasingly resentful towards the newly instated queen, seeing her as the one who seized her rightful throne. To eliminate the queen and pave the way for herself, she schemes, with implicit agreement from the King, to poison Chung Vô Diệm. The queen, with her divination skills, reads through her scheme and forces the concubine to gulp down her own poisoned wine.
