The chapter opens with the arrival of the boss, who is waiting for the bookseller. The bookseller tells the boss that he has finally found the goods he has been looking for. The boss tells the bookseller that he is expanding his business to Shanghai, and that he will soon be able to make a profit from the sale of pirated goods. The shopkeeper tells the boy that he does not want to do the piracy business anymore because it goes against his "principle and values." The boy agrees, and the bookseller offers to take the product for free. The boy, who has been sleeping with the bookseller, wakes up to find the girl's father taking the bookseller's team to dinner at a restaurant in the city. He asks the boy to join them, but the boy refuses, saying that he still has work to do.