This scene opens with the crew preparing for the first scene of the play, which is to be directed by a young man named yue. The young man introduces himself as "Xu Qing" and tells the audience that the scene is for "chu yan" , the female lead in the play. The scene is to take place in a public place, and the young man is to act as the director. When yue asks the young woman if she has seen the script, she tells him that she has, and that the path in the script is wrong. She tells the director to let her go, but he refuses, saying that she should stay away from "xu qing." The young woman, however, is not satisfied, and she begins to argue with the director about the plot of the scene. She says that she knows the plot from the script and that she is mad with herself for not following the script. When the director asks her why she did not follow the script , she says that