In this chapter, the reader is introduced to a new character, the gambler. He is a young man who has been practicing his art of gambling for a while. He has been thinking a lot about the love of his life, that of his beloved, and he wants to know if he has practiced his art for long enough. He asks the reader to look at a letter that he has received from a senior government official. The letter is from a man who grew up in the city, and the man tells the gambler that he often receives letters from the man, who is like a three-year-old child. The young man asks the man to forget about the man and to send him two letters a month. He tells the young man that he does not want to be lonely, and that he sends the man two letters every month because he wants him to be away from the city for a long period of time. He says that he is not afraid of death, but that if the man dies because of him, his cultivation will be affected. He then tells the reader that he always wants more, and now he uses the