In this chapter, we learn that Cai Ancai is the nephew of the Prime Minister's daughter, and that he has come to live with her in order to participate in the imperial exam. He tells us that he and his cousin, Xue, have been hanging out together in the middle of the night and that they are planning to sneak into the bedroom of the Governess and have sex with her. The Governess is an adulterer, according to the laws of western China, and she has to be the "concubine" of the man who has committed adultery with her . When Cai tells him that he delivered his sword to his cousin because he wanted his cousin to have it, he says that he saw it with his own eyes and that it was an arrogant person who wanted to show off her sword.