The chapter opens with a description of a dream in which a blue butterfly and a red butterfly are seen together. The dream is interrupted by the arrival of a white-haired man, who tells the boy that he has just woken up and that the dream is over. The boy is worried about his wound, but the girl assures him that the wound is scabbed over and that he should not worry about it. The girl tells him that she will take care of the wound for him. He tells her that he does not have to change himself, but that he will not be criticized for his actions. He asks her if she always tells him not to care about what others say, but she says that she does not want him to be criticized by others because of her actions. She tells him she understands everything he has done for her, but there is one thing she hopes he can understand too, which is that she pulls away from him no matter what she wants to do with him. She asks if they are going to use the papers to save the master, and the boy says that they are not going to. He is so exhausted that he doesnt care about her at all. He says that he really cares about her, and that she must have told him that there was a connection between the butterflies and the yamas. He wonders why the butterflies are different colors, and wonders if his spell did not go wrong. He also wonders where Yuqian would have been if he had been more focused. He feels that his dream was