In this chapter, we are introduced to a young man named Yulan, who has fallen in love with a young woman named Lu Qian. Yulan asks his older brother, Eric, if he can talk to him about his fiancee, Linda, whom he believes to be close to him. When he asks why he is asking, he is told that it is because he is her elder brother, and that she refuses to tell him anything about herself. He feels that he cannot ask her to keep anything from him, as he feels that she has something against him, and he has to leave her as soon as he can