In this chapter, Ren tells Xinhua that he has come to check on the status of the eunuch in order to save her life. He tells her that she should not tell him that the secret he is trying to find out is that she is afraid of him. She tells him that when she was ten, her mother died, and she was raised by her own mother. Ren says that she feels distant from her sister because everyone must follow his own fate. He says that if he can find out the truth, he can use it to save his life. Ren asks her not to tell him the secret she wants to know. She says that he is so lively that she suspects that he might be a real euch. He asks her if she knows that more than any other person. She replies that she has spent all her time with men in the uniforms for the past five years. Why wouldn't she offer him a treat if she could see if he was really an euch? Ren says this is the only way to know if he is really a fake euch, because if he replaces his own with another's, he must have his treasure in the euch's "purification room" . Ren explains that if she were to seduce him, he would be able to tell if he really was a fake or if he had been castrated. He adds that if Ren were to offer her a treat when she offered him, she would know that he was indeed a fake. Ren also explains that he can tell if she has heard about the purification room by looking at the time, month, and day of a euchs purification. If he replaced his body with someone elses, then he would have his own "treasure" in the room. Ren adds that he will go