In this chapter, we learn that the parents of the three students are very concerned about their children's grades. They have spent a lot of money to get their children admitted to a good school, and they are worried that their children will not be able to do so. The parents try to calm the situation down by reminding the students that their parents hope that they can have a successful future and get into a good university. They also remind the students of the fact that the next-door neighbor, yue xiao, always scores higher in exams than they do. Worried about his own future, dingchen jia tells him to bring a globe to class so that he can use it to measure his progress in class. He also tells him that he has a fever, which will delay class, but he does not mind. He asks the doctor for medicine to treat the fever, but the doctor refuses to give him the medicine, saying that it will delay his class. The doctor then tells lin cheng that his mother is planning to have another child, and that he will have to buy her a birth control pill so that she will not get pregnant. Unsure of what is going on, he tells the doctor that he