The narrator tells us that he's been busy making up a story about a poor girl who loses her parents and then goes abroad to study. He's not rich, he says, and he doesn't want to be a part of the poverty game that's being played on him. He wants to win the prize of 50 million, which is a lot of money for a poor person to win. The narrator admits that he feels guilty about this, but he'd rather lose the prize than have to live with the debt that comes with it.