In this chapter, Shmoop explains why he and his sister-in-law, Ming, were so angry with each other. He explains that Ming is the illegitimate daughter of a mistress and that his mother is trying to marry Ming's father because Ming is rich. He also reveals that Ming and his father fell in love before he met his mother, and Ming is jealous of his mother's desire to marry her father. He tells his sister that Ming has been bad-mouthing him to his father secretly, and that he should heed his father's advice and divorce Ming.