This chapter opens with a conversation between yunxiangxiang and her husband, Lin ze. . He tells her that his son, Fu sihan, is engaged to another woman and that he missed the engagement banquet because he was having an affair with another woman. She tells him that she is now single and wishes to marry someone nice and honest in the capital. She says that she would like to apply to marry a man who is good and honest. She is afraid that her fiance has betrayed her and that she will not be able to marry him if she does not change her mind.