This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel. It's the middle of the chapter, and we're introduced to the protagonist's mother, who is fighting with her daughter, a woman named taozi. She's a famous martial artist, and she's also the mother of the protagonist, who's about to fight another woman named kun. The two of them are fighting in the street, and the protagonist asks his mother if she knows that the other woman is fighting. Her mother replies that she doesn't, because she has no physical strength. The protagonist asks her why she is fighting, and her mother responds that it's for her own good, and that she'll teach her how to fight when she gets better at it