This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the story, where the protagonist, a young man named Ming, is trying to escape from the hole in the wall. Ming is from a small village in the far northern part of China, where women are scarce and far between. The protagonist explains that the first person he met was determined to take his wife as his wife, and he plans to draw a similar mark on his wife's forehead the next day. Ming asks why his sister and brother-in-law are asking about this, and the narrator explains that they are asking because they think there is something fishy about the marriage. The production team has been working on the comic for a while, and they hope that everyone will support it.