In this chapter, we learn that Pet's mother is pregnant, and that she has given birth to a baby boy. The baby boy is named Cai, and he is named after Cai's father, who was the founder of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Cai and his mother discuss the baby's birth, and Cai tells his mother that he wishes he had been born at an orphanage instead of at an inn. Cai tells him that it is better for him to grow up in an orphanage, because he would have been like the other kids in the orphanage.