This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between the Governess and her son-in-law. The Governess says that she has fallen in love with a man named Si Chixuan, a newly elected member of the Politburo of the People's Republic of China. The two men discuss how to arrange a meeting between the two men so that they can discuss matters of mutual interest. When they are interrupted by the arrival of a young man named Lu Nanyin, who is pretending to be Lu's boyfriend, the two of them realize that the man is trying to trick them into thinking that they are talking to Lu. When the young man tells them that he is, in fact, the boyfriend of Lu, they realize that he has no idea what he is talking about.