The chapter opens with a description of a multinational investment company, which is in the middle of a desertion. The company's true identity is that of the president's son, and the assets of the company have also disappeared. The narrator tells us that working with the company is like working with a "happy partnership" , but that's not the case. The son of the American capital federation's president is actually the son of another American president, and most of the other participating companies have disappeared as well. This means that no one has ever suspected the company of being involved in shady business dealings. Young Master Dong is amazed at the young master's ability to keep secrets, but he doesn't dare try to do so on him. The young master says that the literary star is clever, as expected of a literary star. The two men discuss the fight between the two of them, and they decide to hide the gold bars from each other's eyes. The gold bars will be brought to the plant by a foreign inspection team tomorrow. The cultural office will bring them back to the country they came from, so maybe they'll get an investment from the foreign office. The three men decide to go to the repair shop and talk to erdu about the matter. Unsure of what to do, the three men ask wang to stop talking and to stop moving gold bars. Worried that he's going to die of exhaustion, the young man says that it was a good thing he didn't sleep well, because the three of them moved gold all night. The