The narrator tells us that he's just seen someone interesting. He's going to meet someone tomorrow, and he wants to know what's up. He asks if the guy is asking to see him, and the guy says yes. The narrator asks if he knows about an cheng, but the guy doesn't. The guy is sitting next to the narrator at the coffee shop. The cheng has lost his love for someone else, and now he wants the narrator to go with him. So the narrator tells the guy to be brave, because he knows that the cheng will take him away, and that's the price he pays for turning him down. He tells the man to kneel down and beg for forgiveness someday.