The chapter opens with a description of the clothes that the young woman is wearing on her birthday. The narrator explains that she is an "indigenous" person, meaning that she belongs to a minority ethnic group. She is wearing a dress that she has given to the young master, and the young man has gone out of his way to buy her some new clothes. The young woman feels awkward in her new clothes, but she is able to walk on them because her brother has put on the shoes for her. She tells the narrator that the gifts she has received from her brother are "tokens of my gratitude" for his kindness. She also tells him that he promised her that she would study hard, and she asks him why he hasn't come to the meeting yet. He tells her that he forgot his wallet and his phone battery is dead. She asks him if he has a crisis waiting for him, and he replies that it is only a "piece of cake" and that he will solve it "at any second". She asks why the young men didn't return to their meeting, but he says that he has to go home because of his foot pain.