The chapter opens in a bar in Shanghai, where Mr. Cai and his assistant, Mr. Qiao, are having a drink. They've been drinking all day, and they're about to test their strength of drink when Mr. Queaning shows up. He's been out of shape all day. He asks why he hasn't been able to get over his former lover, and he says that he's tried his best, but that he knows that he can never be him. He tells him that he takes everyone for him, but he also knows that they can't be the same person that he is. Mr. Quaaning is so impressed that he starts to cry. He says that if they can pick their agents themselves, then he'll ask them to be his agents. He also says that a fight between two partners is more deadly than a big bang, and that if you're in a bad mood, just get out of the bar and meet the one who's not there.