In this chapter, the narrator tells us about his childhood sweetheart, a boy named "Wei heng." We learn that the boy has been in and out of the hospital for a while, but that he's finally recovered and is now back to his old self. The narrator asks us why it's so hard to get a girl to accept his confession, and we learn that this boy, named "nicolay," is the smartest kid in the class. He's the only one who doesn't want to put all his eggs in one basket, but he likes to call himselfnicolay. The next day, he asks us, how can he become popular with a girl? He asks us to think of a girl like "xia yuan" , who treats the boys with the same level of respect as the boys in his class. The girl treats the boy like a kid, and the boy treats the girl like a child. The two of them discuss how they can get the girl to treat the boy the same way. They decide that they need to learn to "compel girls' pleasure" . For example, they should teach the boy to treat his classmates with respect, so that the girl will treat him the same as a kid would treat his own child. They also decide to teach the girl how to treat a boy who has the highest grades in her class. This is the last meeting of the semester, and this is the city-level unified examination. The result of the exam is not good, but the boy is the first in the city and the grade, and he'll beat the other boy the next time they take the exam. He asks the girl if she's made up her mind to