In this chapter, we learn that the ten members of the family are the ones who have been able to keep the family in power for so long because of their loyalty to the family. In other words, the ten people who protect the family have been the ones that have kept the family strong. The narrator tells us that the narrator feels that he has lost too much, but that he is now able to do it. He says that the people who were closest to him have left him one by one for the last ten years, and he has been unable to capture anything and has been losing. He tells the guards that he will keep getting assassinated, but he says that it is important that they protect him until his death. He explains that his existence has been "a tragedy" from the beginning, and that he can't bring happiness to anyone else. He asks the guards to get him medicine, because he has gotten scratches on his back. The guards tell him that the scratches were all aimed at Miss Lu, and the narrator explains that when he was a member of the rabbit clan, he learned how to use the family's bloodlines to cultivate his own. He wonders if he was too lucky to be able to practice the family bloodlines' secret technique, and wonders if the cost of the technique was too high compared with the cost to the lu family. He then asks the