This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play, "damned woman" . It's a reference to a woman who's been raped, but it's also meant to be a metaphor for a woman's suffering. In other words, the woman in this story is the one who raped the man in the first place. The woman in the story is a woman named Fang, and she's the mother of the protagonist. Fang is the protagonist, and he's about to die.