The narrator tells us that he came to the holiday house to show off to his father. He had a "slight feeling" that he could use the book to get approval from zhu dianqing, but he doesn't know how to do it. He's worried that zhu will approve of him, and he's afraid that literary star fate will just give up on him. He asks what wangye asked him to do, and the narrator tells him that he was fired earlier for making a mistake. He tells the boss that kangsusu is the company's "cash cow" , and that he should arrange for zhu to return to work. The boss tells the narrator that susu has been working too hard, and s/he is worried that she will be put "on ice" since she has offended someone powerful. The narrator is annoyed with zhu, and tells the director to go and get her. The director tells him to knock on brother horn's door, because the company has sent him to the city of qiongzhou to rest. He says that he'll give the director his business card so that he can pick it up.