She melted in the pool of her own poison. It was in a mountain retreat, forgot why they went there (due to summer heat, i think?), but the emperor was there along with YYC, the fiancee(forgot name), YYC's mother, and some of their friends. But that is where, the fiancee really knew that YYC doesn't love her anymore and is driving her out in favor of MX. So she became crazy and decided to retaliate. First using vampire-esque mosquito that MX discovered is weak to fire. Then zombies, then i think is then she revealed that she, Qin Yuyuan(?), did in fact knows martial arts and she transformed nto sone kind of monster. Her true target is MX, but of course both OS and YYC joined to protect her and kill the QYY. Somehow a barrie was erected to limit the fight between the 4 of them, so the friends cannot help. The battlefield is within the area of the pond(?), that has really corrosive water, so MX decided to bring out the tiger(?)-wood machine that she previously snatched from a country they visited before. With that they managed to defeat the princess causing her to fall into the water, thus melting off her everything.
Actually, in that instance, you can sort-of have premonition about the emperor's having further interest to MX.
Hope that helps.