The chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young woman named yunchang, who is in love with a man named luothan. She tells the young man that she wants to go with him to a small village called "hamaroy" in the northeast part of the country, where people build their houses on top of the coral reefs. . The young man tells her that his love education module has been completed, and that he has just finished his course. He then tells the woman that they need to go on a date, and the young woman asks if it teaches her how to get zhan. He says that it does, and she is impressed by how well it works. She then tells him that she has an appointment with her new driver, who will take her to the suburbs for some fresh air. When she asks if he must be busy all the time, he replies that he is, but when he picked her up for class yesterday, he suddenly had an emergency at the laboratory and left. The chapter ends with a description of a young man who is cold, tired, and lazy.