In this chapter, the young narrator tries to be a better student than his teacher, Mr. Liu. He wants to be more polite, more learned, and more successful than his master. He also wants to catch up and overtake him in everything, including his family background. He tells the boy that he's going to tell him some stories about his friend, Lu Qian. The young narrator doesn't understand what the young man is talking about. First of all, he says that as a victim, he has the right to hate anyone who wrecks his family. But as a bystander, he thinks that the mistress's children are also innocent. No one can choose his family, and no one likes to be the children of a mistress. The narrator is sorry that he can't help the resentment, but he also says that he has to learn to deal with it as a teacher.