Waking up in the middle of the night, the narrator tells us that he's been working on his novel, "The Multi-Sided Life Approach," which is about the revenge between the three kids of a business magnate and his "forgotten bastard son." He's also writing a novel about a woman who accidentally sees her mother's first love, a man named lin feng, and misinterprets their relationship. The two of them go to visit their mother, but wu yin gets emotional and leaves home, doesn't go to college, and never goes back to school. Worried about her daughter's safety, lin decides to have an affair with her, even though he knows she's secretly been supporting her daughter since she was a little girl. Aww, that's confusing. The narrator is also worried about the novel's plot, because he'd never written a novel like this before. He tells the narrator that he has been writing the novel about the "revelation" between the children of a businessman and his forgotten son, and that the novel will be a "toilet book" if it's ever published. He says he'll give the novel a copy if the book ever gets published. The cousin is also there, and they're both worried about what's going on. Strangely enough, the cousin says that the surgery is going to go well, so they'll both be okay. The mother and the cousin are both worried that wu-yin is upset, but the cousin reassures them that everything's fine. He also tells the mother that he wrote a leave of absence form for