This chapter opens with a soliloquy by the ghost of Luoying, in which he explains that he will not let his ghost marry her. He says that the relationship between them is purely transactional, and that once she has saved her brother, he will let her go. He then goes on to say that he can easily find her a future son in law for the Su family. He tells her that if her father is going to marry, she must get his recognition first. He also says that if she is pregnant, she will surely give birth to the child and that she will take the child into her family.