In this chapter, we are introduced to Lanzhou's sister, Renying, who has been working as a secretary to the president of China for eight years. Lanzhou tells Renying that he has earned an MBA from Stanford and three Ph.D.s from Harvard. He tells her that the source of her weird illness is her body, and that the big world is full of monsters and demons. He says that he still has some work to do, but that he will take Renying to a rest room and cure her. Renying wonders why Lanzhou is selling the land in Dongping for only 200 million, and wonders why he is doing it. He explains that the land is in danger because the real estate funds that own it are in financial trouble. If they don't sell the land soon, they'll have to go bankrupt, and if they sell it at a higher price, they won't be able to sell it again.