In this chapter, Ren tells us that he's been in the underworld for almost ten days now. He's tattooed Ren's name on his body so that they'll never be apart. He also tells Ren that he found a tattoo artist in the city who was doing soul tattoos. The tattoo artist is a woman named li qianqian, who's married to a man named zhoumingyuan. Ren says that the tattoo artist's house is full of darkness and resentment, just like the auras that Ren saw in the past. Ren thinks that this is the same sort of thing that can happen when you tattoo a soul on someone else's body. He says that there's also a superstition in the country that you can do soul tattoos to ward off disasters, turn luck around, or make you rich. Ren compares this to the way people in the south-east Asia keep a "kuman thong" in their homes. sak-yant tattoos, or soul tattoos, are more evil than the kuman thong because they're directly tattooed with a soul onto the flesh of someone else. Ren wonders if this is an awakened crime. The soul tattoo artist who killed zhenglan was unaware that she'd already died. Ren deduces that the soul she tattooed onto zheng's corpse was taken away and used to seal the soul on li qiyanqian's. Ren concludes that the ghost Ren saw at the tattoo shop was the same ghost that led him to her house. Ren also discovers that two souls are being cultivated in the shop.