This chapter opens with a conversation between the blind young master, Qianchu, and his servant, feng de. The young master tells his servant that he is worried about his daughter, and that he wants her back. He says that he has been too easy with her and that she will confess everything if she experiences the "taste of death" . He tells her to get out of his sight and says that she is something. He compares her to a sleeping forest and wonders if this is the last image he will see from the world. He asks her to draw, and she tells him to make sure she looks good no matter what she does. She tells him that she wants to see what he has drawn and asks him if he will marry her. She says that her father is afraid of revealing the truth about her because it would bring shame to her family. She reminds him that if he were not here she would not know where she should be.