This chapter opens with a soliloquy by Cai Ming, who tells the audience that he has been kidnapped and is being hunted down. He tells Cai Ming that if he kills his wife, he will be rewarded. Cai Ming tells him that his life is so hard that he wants to die here. He wants to kill his wife so that he can be rewarded for killing her. He asks Cai Ming to step over his dead body first. He says that the assassins were low life assassins, and that he deals with them. He also tells the reader that Cai Ming has been drinking and that his hangover cure is a cure for his fear of being kidnapped and hunted down by the li family. He explains that he was planning to let Cai Ming contain Cai Ming and then control his family. The two men discuss the upcoming talent show and Cai Ming says that he did not want to go because his father had set everything up for him when he was Cai Ming'