The chapter opens with a soliloquy in which the narrator laments the fact that she is in love with a man whom she does not love. She tells the reader that she has made her boyfriend leave her, and that she knows that he will regret it later. She also tells the audience that xiaoke is planning to return to his old house, which he has lived in since he left for Europe. The narrator then tells us that she will go to meet her boyfriend at the bar.