The narrator tells his wife that he knows what kind of woman she is and that marrying her is "the luckiest thing in his life" . He tells his sister to grab some food and lie down. He says that he thinks his brother is "hopeless already" and that the family will have to "turn over a new leaf" if they continue to slander his wife. He thanks his sister for trusting in the family and says that it is a "pity" that he cannot be a part of the family again. He feels that the secret that Lin Suyu's friend exposed was enough to "give the family another blow" , but he believes that the person who exposed the secret came out and did it at the right moment . The narrator says that if he hadn't been so