This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the Illustrious Narrator, in which he laments the loss of the love of his life. He tells the audience that he has many regrets, and that he does not want to have any more. He reminds the audience of the last time he expressed his love for them, and the sentence he interrupted. He asks the audience to forgive him for being selfish in the past, and to remember that he is a true dragon in the divine realm. He begs the audience not to make xianzi suffer, and he promises to take the audience back to the gods.