In this chapter, the narrator tells us that he's not so hard on xixi, because she's "honey" . He also says that yihai is the "apple of his eye" , and that she has a similar "face" to his mom, dad, and auntie . The narrator says that he wants to go to his room to rest, but that huiyin has become "more unreasonable" lately, so he'll go back to his garden to rest. He says that his garden is "modern" too, since his house is modern. He wants to see how his garden compares to the garden of the "yun family," and he says that this garden is beautiful. He then apologizes to her, saying that he didn't mean to say that she was the younger sister of "yun nuo." He also asks her to pick some flowers from the garden and bring them to his house. He's going to post a picture of his garden the next time he sees it. The next time, he says, the garden will become an "antique greenhouse." The narrator then says that she'll treat xi xi as her "closest relative," and she invites her to come and have a bite to eat in the dining room.