This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the novel, "If it werent for my elder brother and elder sister, I wouldn't be alive" . In other words, if it wasn't for the elder siblings, we'd all be dead. The elder siblings are the ones who have kept us alive. They've kept us safe, they've made sure that we've been well fed, and most importantly, they have made sure we haven't fallen in love with any other man in the whole world. This is all thanks to elder sister tang and elder brother snhangguan, who have been keeping watch over us since we were little kids. We learn that elder sister xian has been in the city for a long time, and that she's also been living with Bing'er since he came to live with them. She's the one who has been keeping tabs on us, keeping us safe and keeping us in line. She tells us that her son zhou has been telling her everything about what's happened, and she was shocked when he told her that he ran into hundreds of wolves to lure them away from her. She was shocked, too, because she doesn't know how to keep her son in line when his daughter grows up. She likes him, she says, because he's her son anyway. She asks zhou to show her his "inborn power jewel" , and he shows her his three-eyed chinchilla. He's got wind, thunder, darkness, evil, and an unknown attribute. He also has an "absolute delay" skill , which means that he can stop his opponent for a second before he can kill him. This skill, he says, is the "decisive" attribute of hiss, and it's one of the