The chapter ends with a soliloquy by the doctor, in which he explains that he had planned to have an operation when he was about five years old, but that he couldn't do it because he was too young. When he met the doctor that year, he wanted to stay with him so that he could have the operation at regular intervals. But when he got back, he found out that Gu xixi had been married and that she was even pregnant. He tried to get her back, but she refused to repent. He tells her that she deserves to be executed for all of her crimes.