In this chapter, we learn that Ming-Ling is busy with her mission of increasing the love between her and her sister. She's waiting for her brother, sheng, who's back from the fight. She wants to know what's wrong with him. He's still wearing his sleeping pills, and she's worried that he's having trouble sleeping. She tells him to stop being so nosy, and then she gives him some steamed buns that her dad packed for her. She promises that she won't disappoint him.