The chapter opens with a flashback to a time when the narrator was a child and a friend of the songci's. The songci and the songjinnian were childhood playmates, and the narrator still remembers that the songchun was a childhood friend who drifted away after he graduated from high school. The narrator tells the story of the time when he made the decision to hide his marriage from his family and friends. He says that he is going to a party at the home of the li yue family, and he hopes that the two of them will not cause trouble for him at the party. He tells them that he has not yet graduated from college, so he does not want to tell anyone about his secret marriage. He also tells the two that he will be hosting a party, and they must remember to come. He asks the two to come, but they refuse, saying that they will not be able to do so because of the whips that are being whipped on his body from the lenghaun. He feels that the whip is real, and that he must return the humiliation he felt back to ninghuan. He wonders why he feels this way, but the narrator tells him that it is because renq