In this short scene, Ren Zhang's son, jiuniang , reveals his identity to the reader. He explains that his father wants him to kill him and that he has come to fight for him. He tells the reader that he is the son of a powerful court official, and that the court official has close ties to high-ranking people in the government. He says that the girl does not know how to fight back against her father, because she feels powerless. He concludes that his fate is likely to be that he will be killed by the girl's father.