The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the book, when Cai Mingyu was still a student at the university. He tells his brother that he has been spending less time with Cai Lingyu and more time with another man, whom he has fallen in love with. The flashback is interrupted by the arrival of a messenger from billund, who is about to perform his guarding ceremony. The messenger tells Cai that the ceremony will take place in front of the whole world, and that Cai and his brother are the guardians of the universe. Cai is shocked to learn that his brother is not at the ceremony, and he asks his brother to hurry up and find out what is going on.