Now that he thinks about it, the narrator realizes that he was "like a fool" at the beginning of the story, because he didn't understand love, relationship, and distance. He wants to know why they don't live together. The first activity is the pumpkin-carving contest, and the narrator's voice is Tan Bai's. He's worried that Mingyuan gao's luck is bad, so he wants to focus on the contest first. He hasn't heard from Mingyuan for two days, and he wonders if he can stop looking at a pumpkin like he's trying to kill it. The narrator says that he'd like to talk to Mingyuan about the competition, but Mingyuan has been acting "weird" for the past two days. He says that Mingyu was acting chaste and "undefiled" when he left, so Mingyu must have been depressed when he first met Mingyu five years ago, because Mingyu wasn't able to speak to him. Mingyu's dad doesn't even care about Mingyu, and Mingyu finally accepted Mingyu as a friend because of this, Mingyu says. Mingyuan says that if neither of them takes the initiative to get to know each other, "nothing will ever happen" between the two. He asks Mingyu if he still has any plans to move in with Mingyu