In this chapter, we learn that the bride and groom were married in a private ceremony, but the wedding was interrupted by the birth of a baby boy. The baby boy is named wu, which means "monster" in Chinese, and the couple uses the boy's name to refer to themselves. The wedding is interrupted by a change in the wedding dress of the local priest, who had planned to wear white for the ceremony but had changed his dress overnight to avoid being "bewitched" by wu