When the marquis enters the room, the servant is shocked to find that he has been given only one dish of the spicy rabbit. The marquis tells the servant that he was born with a heavy rain, which caused a landslide and killed half the villagers. The head of the village thought he was a jinx and drifted him away from the village, but a human trafficker picked him up and sold him into a brothel. Now that the servant has been bought by the lord, he does not want to redeem himself. He explains that it takes 1,000 taels to unlock the next part of his master's code, and that he never treats servants harshly. The servant is amazed at the generous nature of the master, and wonders if he can pay her double. The maid is not there to wash the servant's clothes, and the room is dark.