This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet named Duan chao, who is also known as "chang chao" or "Dongyuan." He is the protagonist of the novel, which is set in the fictional town of Suzhou, in northeastern China. The poem is about a young man who is in love with a foreigner, and the protagonist asks the poet if he is still in contact with the girl. The poet replies that he is not in touch with her anymore, and that he would rather "fuck chang chang" if he were in love. He then asks the protagonist if he still has a crush on the girl, and if he has recently changed his mind about her. The protagonist replies that if he was in love, he would "rather fuck" the girl than "chang" her, and he then asks if the young man is "fucking gay" now. The young man replies that staring at him cannot solve his problem. He also asks if he would help him spread the news of the girl's marriage to a western doctor, or if they should move to a new city and start practicing medicine there. He asks if they would change from the "western doctors" to the "chinese doctors" , and how many years' experience would it take for a doctor to have? The protagonist says that he's not his bro anymore, since he is gay, and asks if Duan