This chapter opens with a conversation between a first-person narrator and an audience member. The narrator asks the audience member why he is here. The audience member answers that he just moved to China and is returning to his old home. He has a crush on a second-year law student named Ming-Lin, but he does not know who she is. He tells the audience that he has been unable to take his eyes off her because she is a "coward" and a "scarecrow." The audience members are shocked at the narrator's lack of knowledge about the law student, and they ask the narrator if he has ever fallen in love. The first person narrator explains that love comes from first sight and that the one who makes a person fall in love is the most important person in a person's life