The chapter opens with a discussion of the truth. The narrator says that he has always trusted Sha-Sha and her sister, Mo-Qing, and that he never thought that they were the illegitimate children. They lived in harmony until the marriage of Sha's wife, who died shortly after, to the mother of Sha and Mo's sister, Lin Suyu. The mother of both sisters, however, became the illegitimate daughter, and she cannot be exposed. This is because she was still young, and no one remembers that she is the real daughter of the two sisters. This makes the narrator doubt that Sha and his sister are the real daughters. He decides to contact the reporter who captured the photos of the car and the front of the house and bring him to him.