In this chapter, the narrator tells the story of how he came to be with the boy. He tells the boy about the lantern festival that was going on in the countryside. The boy asks the narrator to help him change his destiny. He wants to become a royal. The narrator tells him that the white tiger god is no longer the same person that he was before. He also tells him about constellations general, who is now the king of the country. The man in the picture looks familiar, and the narrator wonders why he changed his portrait. He wonders why the people in the country do not pray to change their own destiny, and he wonders why they do not mention the importance of saving money to buy the stones that they need to make a change in their destiny.