It's late at night, and the narrator is late getting home from work. He's bummed that he didn't make it to Aunt Hetty's party, but he's glad that he was able to make it. He wants to check out Anqiao to see if she's as beautiful as he is. He tells her that she can only be a match for teacher mom, dad, and Uncle Hetty, and that she'll be happy to meet him. He asks her to sing him a song, but she doesn't know how to do it, so he leaves. The narrator tells him that after all these years of marriage, she'd been having a "soul infidelity" . He says that after she forced him to marry her, someone else's heart was in her head, and she couldn't bring herself to get it back. He begs her not to be selfish and not to think about it, because he'll never be able