In this chapter, we learn that Caixin's fiancee, the daughter of the city's mayor, is engaged to a man from another part of town. Caixin tells her fiance that she is not interested in his engagement, but that she wants him to marry her. She tells Caixin that he is the only one who can make the deal with her, and that he should just keep his words in his mind. She also tells him that he has a fiancee waiting for him, but Caixin has told her not to worry about that, because he is her future husband and she is his future wife. She says that she has once witnessed the elegance of the mayor's daughter, who is obsessed with dressing like a rich person. She adds that the family has a high-class tonic, but the servants in her family have inferior tonics. She compares the family's food to that of her own family, saying that even the servants have inferior food. She concludes that the xi and the yu families will eventually become one, and Caixin says that they have already settled their engagement.