Related to Love

It's been three years since the narrator has been in Shanghai, and he thanks the vice president for encouraging him. He's still working on his report, but he's feeling a little dizzy. He tells her that she's changed a lot since he introduced her to the students. He says he'll teach her a lesson once they get back to school. The two of them talk about how much they've changed, and the narrator says that he can't even remember her from high school. She tells him that he looks a lot prettier than he did in high school, and she says that it's because of wine. She says she'd like to go home and just be an ordinary clerk instead of an office worker. She's tired of working, she says, and wants to go back to being a housewife. She also says that she still prefers to work, because she'll be able to introduce her to her bosses, and because she knows that women need to get themselves pretty in order to get ahead in the world. She adds that there's nothing more exhausting than being an office clerk, and that she doesn't want to waste her time at the office. She wonders if the students' union is having some kind of commotion, but the narrator points out that women rely on their own choices, and they don't have the right to lecture anyone else about theirs. The narrator then wonders if there might be some sort of misunderstanding between her and the president of the Students' Union. He wonders why he looks so familiar, and wonders if he'd beat someone in the street if he were an elegant woman like her.