The next morning, Duan-fei tells zhu that he's finally decided to help him out of his funk. He tells her that the first time he met her, she used him to beat up the men who flirted with her. The second time they met, he found out that she was trying to drive off the men she flirted with. She's in the middle of a race in which she's going to try to kill off all of her suitors. She wants to go to the nine-dao-pan, a place that's known for its "gates of hell" . She doesn't want to go there, because she knows she'll be laughed at by the rest of her life if she does go there.