In this chapter, the narrator tells us that the court has finally received his father's lawsuit and that he's going to go back to China. He's bummed that he hasn't heard from his son in days. He tells us he'll send a message to him when he gets back to the States, and then he promises to go look for him in the morning. He doesn't know why he didn't wake up to check his phone, but he does know that if he had, he'd have missed a bunch of calls from his friend. He says he would call his friend and apologize, but that's not the case. He also says that he wishes he had woken up earlier, so that he could have sent him countless messages. But that'd be like a dream, he says, and he would wake up in the middle of the night and have missed all sorts of calls. He apologizes for not waking up earlier and promises to call him later in the day. He goes on to say that when he woke up, there wasn't a response to his messages. He then asks if there's any chance that shiyi might have been taken away by someone who passed by and left him on the street. He wonders if someone might have taken him to a hospital, but can't find him there. He asks if they've had dinner yet, and the auntie tells him to come on in and let them go. The auntie says that she has something for him, and she gives him a piece of paper that she gave him when she was abroad. The paper says that it will bring good luck, and that it's a good luck charm. It's the same charm that a friend gave