 To further the deception, she arranged for the furniture to be rearranged all the time so that he would always become lost, which eventually resulted in Kōyū lacking any sense of direction.Reishin eventually formally adopted Kou, taking care to rename the child "Kōyū Ri" in hopes that Kōyū could live as he wanted without the responsibilities of Hong clan to burden him.In the 13th novel, Kōyū is imprisoned under accusation of abusing his powers as Vice Chamberlain of the Department of Civil Administration; because Reishin never did any work, Kōyū had often overstepped his bounds by doing Reishin's work for him.