Back in the house, xixi tells his father that he has just returned from a hotel where he was seen having an affair with a man. His father is furious and demands to know what has happened. . He tells his mother that she should leave immediately and that he will have her cook for them if she does not come to help him. He says that his mother is a "woman about my age" and that she has done a great deal of work for the family. He adds that his father is a man who stands by his wife when her husband is abused by her mother. His mother, on the other hand, is a woman that can only "grovel and apologize" and will never change. He feels that he cannot take this family anymore and will leave when he earns enough money to take his mother with him.