The next morning, Ding asks if he can really leave. He tells her that he is working overtime and that he will return home late. He says that he cannot remember when he began to use excuses to say that he was going to sleep first, too tired, or that he would talk later. She says that it is a perfunctory act and that it makes the people around him feel hopeless. She gives up her job as a maid because she does not need to complete housework every day. When she thinks about having a baby and calling her mother, she feels like it is flying in the cloud of happiness. The rain is heavy and he has not brought an umbrella. She tells him that if he gets caught in it, he will get a fever and a flu the next day. She pretends to go to the office to collect an umbrella and pretends that she is coming from the office. She asks if there are any other people named Xiao Zhao who work in the office, and he says that they are all working overtime. She then asks if they have attended the funeral of one of their colleagues, who has recently passed away. He replies that they have not.