This chapter's epigraph comes from the poem "Song of Reverberation," which was written by the famous poet . It's a song about the reverberation of a dream, and this is one of the epigraphs in this chapter. The narrator tells us that he's been working on the curse with Lei xi, and he can't figure out who asked the old man to kill . He's also not sure if he killed the old guy himself, or if he recommended him to kill him. He doesn't have a lot of time to think about this, since the old master is also in the castle. The old man lost his memory two years ago and was sent away to the enemy. The other person who distracts him from his work is also at the castle, so he'll have to talk to him later. He also tells us about the strange behavior of xiaomi, who was initially resistant to the young master. When she saw him, she thought that he was handsome, and seemed to be falling in love with her at first sight, which was strange. The two of them will talk about this later, and the narrator says that it's strange that two cases of this kind of occurrence are happening at the same time in the same place. The young master asks for a dance with him, but he won't dance, because he wants to celebrate his birthday on his own. He says that if he were to dance, he would probably be lonely. He thinks that maybe xi was talking to himself, and that's why he didn't say a word. He wonders if xi might have been talking to xi about himself. Maybe he was talking