This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between lishang, the brothel owner, and his father-in-law, the former minister of rites. . In this chapter, we learn that the brothel's owner poisoned his wife so that she would not be able to bear his child. He tells his father that he is destined to be the father of his wife's child because he poisoned the woman so that her child would not have a chance to grow up. He adds that he hopes that his father will be a good father and not a bad one. The brothel owner also reveals that he has adopted his niece, Su rouoshuang, who is the daughter of Su lianzhi, a former official in the ministry of rites who is also the owner of a brothel. Su lunzhi is a woman of questionable morals, but she has adopted her niece because she wants to have a daughter of her own. She tells her husband that she married him because she did not want to be tainted by countless other women like him. She also tells him that she still loves him and that he deserves her