In this chapter, the narrator explains that she rejected Martin because she wants to be an independent woman and not a part of a romantic relationship. She tells Jim that she met the mother of Luhuan, who doubted that her baby belonged to another man and asked her to come to the hospital to have a blood test. The narrator advises her to be completely different from the young men around her. She also tells her that Luhuan is from a single parent family and that his mother wants to control him.