In this chapter, we learn that the two men have been secretly in love for a long time, and that they have been living together for the entire semester. We learn that he has taken a leave of absence from the university for the past semester, and he has been staying at the apartment of a friend of his who is also a student at the university. We also learn that in the second year of his studies, Zhang was caught by an old man named feng, who accused him of framing him without knowing the facts. The two men agree that the incident proves that they were suspicious of each other in the past, and they agree that it is pointless to bring it up now. They also agree that Zhang should not dig up the past stuff, as they can compete with each other to see who can dig it up first.