In this chapter, we are introduced to a new character, jing, who is a student at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a very good student, and he is very interested in the activities of the other students at the school, especially the students from the pharmacy school. jing tells the story of how he met and fell in love with Qu-Mei, and how he was very upset when he found out that the two of them had fallen in love. .