The next morning, zixing asks why his teacher is so scared of him. The teacher tells him that he is afraid of him because he has always been scared of the fox. . The two men discuss the fact that they have agreed to rent the same apartment together. The landlord did not find a suitable place for the two of them to live when they were renting the same house, so they had to rent out the two apartments to each other. Mr. An is shocked to learn that the teacher is a novelist. He says that the protagonist of his new novel is a teacher, and that he took the test to become a teacher because he was interested in developing the character emotionally. He is sorry that he has not been able to write his novel because of the test, but he is still his teacher.