This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by the famous poet Siddhartha Mukherjee. The poem is about a young man who has come to India to seek refuge from his family, who has been persecuted by the Indian government. The young man has come because he wants to protect his family and his country from the tyrannical rule of the Indian king. He has come in order to protect the family from the "wicked woman" , who deceived the emperor, and has brought harm to the kingdom. He swears that he will follow the king to death. He tells the young man that the woman has harmed the family loyal to the emperor and has caused them to die in vain. The old man is touched by the praise, and he tells his daughter that he can rebuild the family. He thanks the old man for his help, and thanks the new master, the medical sage, for taking care of him. He says that he has cleared the family name, and that as long as he can subdue nan to him, the "rallying wave party" will be totally wiped out. He wants to propose to the young woman again, but the sage interrupts him for no reason. The sage tells the grand master that thousands of followers of the taoists have gathered here, and they look like "a copy and paste of each other" . The grand master says that the new disciple has to study "tao scriptures" for a year, during which time they cannot get married. The new disciple is to introduce