The chapter opens with a conversation between Duan and yuesheng. Duan tells Duan that he has to include all of the expenses in the purchase price of the silk and satin factory, and Duan admits that he had a long conversation with Duan, but the final purchase price still came out to be a thousand dollars more than Duan had originally estimated. To make up for the extra money, Duan took money from his factory and gave Duan two choices: either to give the store to Duan or to pay Duan back ten times the amount of money he had originally loaned. He chose the latter option, but Duan still has no money. He also has no way of repaying Duan for the money he loaned him, and he agrees to run the factory for Duan. The loan is on paper, so Duan can sue Duan if he wants to, but he can't do so when he's just signed the loan slip. He says that if Duan wants to tell the authorities about the deal, he can tell them all about how he tried to take Duan's property, and then he'll be able to go abroad and study in Japan. He'll tell his family that he'd like to go study abroad, and they'll all be happy to help him. He tells them that his boss was planning on giving him a job as a branch manager at the factory, but that he was the victim of his family's family matters, and that he still has nothing. He hates the corrupt, dog-eat-dog world, and hates all of them. He doesn't understand why they would sell their store to him, or why he would have to pay so much for it. He didn't think it would turn out this way