This chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter. We learn that Ching-Xing-Xuan was the one who saved the young man from drowning, and that he is the person who has the antidote to the poison, which is the same poison that killed Cai-Tsing-Ling. The young man is shocked to learn that the antidote does not work, and he asks the young master to give him the antidote so that he may die. The two men discuss the possibility of the two of them becoming lovers, and the young men agree that they will travel around the world together.
This chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter. We learn that Ching-Xing-Xuan was the one who saved the young man from drowning, and that he is the person who has the antidote to the poison, which is the same poison that killed Cai-Tsing-Ling. The young man is shocked to learn that the antidote does not work, and he asks the young master to give him the antidote so that he may die. The two men discuss the possibility of the two of them becoming lovers, and the young men agree that they will travel around the world together.