This chapter opens with a flashback to the events of the previous chapter, which took place at the "yan mansion" . In this flashback, we are introduced to Ching-wook, who has returned to the mansion and is now playing the part of the Governess of the mansion. The Governess asks him if he is drunk, and he replies that he is, and that he wants to find the truth about Cai-Li's death. He then asks him how he is going to do his filial duty of finding out the truth, when he has disapproved of his suspicion of Cai. He asks if he has been given permission from Cai to keep him as a "plaything," and he then asks if she has approved of him keeping him as such. She replies that she has, and she asks him to take her to the bed, where she will feed him more blood. She then tells him that he should