In this chapter, we learn that Dr. Lin is the husband of Dr. Zhuang, the doctor's wife, and that the two have known each other for a little over a year. We learn that the first character, Zhuang's first love, is dead, and the second character, Lin's second love, has been living with Zhuang for a long time. Dr. Lan's death is the end of the first-person narrator's story, and he is now the narrator.