The chapter opens with a conversation between a young woman named anna and a young man named feng xin. anna tells the young man that she knows about his relationship with her husband. The young man tells anna that he is going to school and that he has to get out of the house because there are "traps" everywhere. He asks the young woman if she has ever thought about his feelings for her husband, and she says that she has not. He tells her that she is a very traditional woman, and that it is normal for a woman to fall for a disfigured man. He says that if the marks on her body were exposed, she would be criticized, but if they were not, he would be labeled a player. He also says that the marks are okay, but they should be used to hide their identity. .