Have we forgotten about that little boy and the concubine who's trying to push out the princess?
I don't. It was implied that she was the sister of the woman who was beheaded. And that woman, in turn, was implied to be a hostage. If she wasn't a hostage in the first place she would never have been able to make Ria cry.
Have we forgotten about that little boy and the concubine who's trying to push out the princess?