This chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the novel, in which the narrator describes the events leading up to the novel's publication. The narrator explains that the novel was written in the early 1900s and that the characters in this chapter are fictionalized versions of the real-life people who lived in the novel. In this case, the fictional characters are young men named Bo and Lin Suer, who are both members of the bo family, the world's largest and oldest family, and the pioneers of the field of information technology.