In this chapter, the narrator continues his story of how he came to be the man he is. He tells the reader that he once spoke up for a young woman who claimed that she had been raped by a man named Yu-Tian. The girl, namednian Shang, was a member of a small literary group. She was a fan of the man, and she wanted to meet him. She waited for him for five hours, and when he finally arrived, she had already submitted her evidence to the authorities and exposed everything in the process. The narrator explains that the girl had been tormented in the "living hell of despair" for two months, and he could do nothing to help her