This chapter opens with a conversation between jingjie and manjun, who are still working at the same company. . He tells her that he has seen her many times, but he has avoided her. She seems to have left the company, and he has stopped calling her as well. He says that love is sweet, but soon it turns to boredom, habit, betrayal, and despair. He gives her the puzzle he has made for her, and she thanks him for it. He asks her why there is a girl on the boat and she tells him that she has the same background as him, and that she loves him. She says that they cannot be together because they haven't even tried to date. She tells him to stop talking and she will call him manjun. She asks him why he wants to steal her woman and he says that she is his. He is not eligible to be with her, she says, because she is from another company. She gives him a big surprise and he asks her to go with him to the country to look for a psychic master