In this chapter, we learn that the protagonist is a thirty-year-old man who has been living in Shanghai for the past 30 years. He's a bachelor, and he's very happy to be living in a big house with a bunch of other people. He tells us that his landlord has rented the house to him for a very cheap price, and that's because the landlord doesn't want to use it. He asks if the rent is too high, and the protagonist says it's too low. He also asks if he has to live in the big house, since the landlord only wants to rent it to him when he refuses. The protagonist says he'll take a picture of the house and ask the landlord what he thinks of his new tenant. He says that yesterday, little fei told him that he was attracted to the protagonist because he looked like him. He admits that he would have been angry at first, but now that he looks like him, the protagonist thinks that the person he liked wasn't him.