The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the book, when the protagonist is a child. He is introduced to his father, who is the founder of a medical school in Shanghai. The protagonist's father tells the story of how his son was bullied into marriage by the shy chu family, and how he was happy when he asked his son to marry him after graduating from the school. He tells the protagonist that he has always regarded his son as his wife, and that he will be opening the school's medical school on the following day. This is a reference to the fact that the protagonist will be working in the medical school as a doctor. The father tells his son that the mayor of Shanghai has come to congratulate him on the opening of the school, and the mayor's sister has also come to visit the school to congratulate the new doctor. When the father asks his son what is going on outside, the doctor tells him that his son is sick and should be taken to the hospital.