This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the cat leader, who tells the others that he will not allow his senior to be corrupted. He tells them that before he came to China, he had been living in Europe for a while, where women kissed each other and men held hands. It makes sense, he says, for an idiot like him, but it also makes sense for someone like him who always plays "truancy" . The cat leader tells the other guards that he is taking his senior for a walk, and that he wants to kiss chu-qing so that the other cats will not recognize him. He says that he would never be in love with someone, and he would not fall for that idiot .