"So soft" , the narrator tells us, is a description of the way people treat stray animals. They don't take the time to care for them, and they just throw them away. He tells us that he used to be a student at a pet hospital near his school, where they would have kittens and dogs waiting to be adopted. The owner of the pet hospital would take them in hoping that a kind person would adopt them. He says that when he was a student, the hospital would have new pets waiting for adoption, and the owner would take the pets in in hopes that the person who adopted them would be kind and kind to the animals. The narrator says that he's just waiting for the right person to adopt the kitten. He asks the doctor if he can see the rabbit. The doctor says he'll wait, but the kitten is too soft for him. The kitten's name is baibai, which means "bye" or "bye" in Chinese. It's a reference to the fact that ianbai didn't know about his father's affair until after he rejected an invitation to France and returned to China to start over. The father asks the narrator if it would be okay to tell the truth about the affair, since ian is currently the top perfumer at a company that the narrator has worked for. He doesn't want to ruin the relationship between his company and ian's company, he says.