This chapter opens with a flashback to the time of the Ming family's visit to the Great Wall of China, during which the patriarch and his son-in-law, the handsome uncle, and their son, the little boy, were both born. The uncle asks his son if he is willing to be his son, and the boy replies that he is. The little boy then asks his father if he wants to be the father of his son. The father says that he wants his son to have a father, and that his son has a father. He then asks the boy to cover his face so that no one can steal him away from his mother. He tells the boy that his mother is afraid that someone will steal him from her because he is too handsome. He also tells him to stop talking nonsense, as he will indeed have enemies. He asks his wife to come with him to the reception room of the inn where they are staying. The reception room is full of people waiting for the woman to arrive. The man who is waiting for her is a disciple of the ninth-grade sceptic sect. He is the grandson of a vice-master, and he is dependent on his grandfather. He says that if his grandfather had not asked him to take the woman back to the sect, he would have never come