In this chapter, the narrator reflects on his life. When he was a child, his father gave his mother a villa, but fleming later got sick and the family had to mortgage the property to find a doctor. When the family finally found a doctor, however, they were swindled out of the house. The narrator bought the family a small villa in the heart of Shanghai with a down payment of 6 million yuan. When his grandfather asked him if he had a dream, he answered that his grandfather's dream was exactly that of a dream