The narrator tells us that ziyun has feelings for han, but that they are also brothers, and that all he did for her was because he wanted her to be his successor. He tells her that he's not good enough to be the next city lord, and he just wants to repay his father for saving him from the streets when he was a boy. He says that he has worked hard to be a city lord and that he never wanted to waste any time on it, but now that he knows that it's up to his father, he apologizes. He admits that he should have taken better care of his children, instead of putting so much burden on them.