This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between a wine master and a nobleman. The wine master tells the nobleman to go to the auction house, where he'll kill a certain nobleman named Chen Shaobai. The nobleman says that he's sorry, but he had no choice: he killed an absolute nobody. Wine says he doesn't blame him, but that he won't come back to his old place. He's not there to kill him, he says. He just wants to find out what's going on.