After a long time, bai finally gets the chance to see him again. He tells bai that the chief has sent spies to find him. bai says that he's not gay, and that he doesn't want to waste time with him. He says that if it weren't for dropping the earring, he'd have believed bai. He asks bai why he would secretly keep his earring, and bai replies that he took it as a keepsake from a regular friend, and now that they're no longer friends, he no longer needs to keep it. He also says that bai did nothing wrong to him, and he apologizes for the disgusting thing he did to him. It's gross, he says, if they spend so much time with bai's kid, his men might infect them too, and they'll infect bai too. He's a freak like that, and deserves to be beaten up like that. He leaves, but bai tells him to go back to his business. lin is tempted to tie his purse to his neck, but he says he'll take care of it himself if he loses it again.