This chapter opens with a conversation between a young man named Mr.wanqu and a young woman named Alintie. The young man asks the young woman if she lives in the same house as him, and she replies that she does, since it is convenient for her to live in the most luxurious house in the city. The girl tells the young man that she is the winner of a competition to design a new house for her family, and that she has come to collect the deed to the house from the man who won the competition