The scene opens in a Hong Kong hotel, where a young woman named Phoebe is trying to learn to ride a horse. She is accompanied by another young man named Ren, who has come to see her. Ren tells Phoebe that she is free to come and go as she pleases, but that she must leave immediately because she has urgent business to attend to. Phoebe tells Ren that she has not yet been to the city landmark, the Tower of the Arrow, which she built to celebrate the city's development.