This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between xiaonian and his wife. He tells her that even though she has evidence against her, the police cannot bring charges against her and her accomplices. . He says that if he wants to take revenge on them, he will not stop them from doing so. He also tells her to leave the matter to him. He asks her why she is helping him, and she says that she is not his wife anymore. She tells him that three years ago she told him that she saw him hanging at the President's house and that he had a "promiscuous relationship" with him. Now that he thinks about it, he is the kind of "soft-hearted idiot" who believes anything anyone says. He explains that he has been trying to help . and now he knows why she set him up. She wanted to make him hate her, but what he did irritated her, so she pushed him "into the abyss" and it took him three years to "see through it all"