The chapter opens with a conversation between a married woman and a young man. The young man is Hu Minghuan, the son of a wealthy and powerful family. He is the father of the young woman, who is the daughter of a rich and powerful woman. The conversation is interrupted by the arrival of a young woman from another part of the world, who has come to visit the young man's family. She is the wife of the wealthy man, and she is the mother of the woman from the other world. The two women discuss the recent events in their lives. The first woman complains that she has just gotten a divorce from her husband, and that she does not know what the invitation for the party is. The second woman wonders if her daughter's parents will be invited to the party, since they have not seen their daughter with a servant in a long time. She wonders if the party will be an invitation for her daughter to get close to a servant, and if she will have to wait until she dies before she can see her parents again. The third woman complains about the young girl's father, who