In this chapter, the narrator explains that marriage is not easy, and he hopes that everyone will not believe in the rumor that his wife is having an affair with a rich man. However, his wife's lover, Zhenxing, has gone abroad, avoiding the scandal. The narrator is still too naive to believe that things are always going to be okay. He tells us that while he was working on his new project, someone named "Wu" insisted to meet him face to face. He also disappeared after he went to the toilet, but he was pretending to be rich, handsome, and in love with another woman. The woman is named "Sherry" and she is the boss of the restaurant where the meeting took place. The waitress tells the narrator that the two women have left their bags at the restaurant and that they will not be able to pay for their food and wine. She tells him that the bags are fakes from a roadside stall and that he should be careful in the future because he will be caught in the act.