This chapter opens with a soliloquy by a young woman named daji, who wants to know why her name is being used in the novel. She tells the narrator that if she were a man, she would work hard to make the country prosperous. She also tells him that the country would not fall because of her name. The young woman asks the narrator to come and have sex with her, and the narrator agrees. She then tells the young woman to slap the young man, who is a newcomer to the world of prostitution. The girl is shocked to find that the man in question is none other than the third target of the novel's plot. She is also shocked to learn that the second target, nan ping, is also a spy, and that he is using his subordinates to spy on her and her brother. She asks the mistress of the brothel to go check on the grand tutor. The mistress tells the mistress that she has just seen the second and third targets enter the tutor's room. She thinks that the first target is probably a double agent and the second one is probably nanping's subordinates. She says that if the master dares to harm her, she will kill him with the medicine she has on her. She goes on to say that the mistress thinks that zixiao is a professional, and wonders why the room is so quiet. She learns that the girl in the brothel is a "mulan," who disguised herself as a man and joined the army to help her father. She was bullied by the men, and when she confessed that she was a man to one of them, she was slapped and ran away. In the end, the mistress concludes that the spy is the one who saw the spy out in the open. She wonders how she can explain