The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that jinyao has come to see him. He asks her why she came to him so suddenly, and she tells him that it was because she asked him to consider it. The narrator tells her that she is not a bachelor, and that she doesn't want her relationship to affect her career. The next day, as the narrator is getting ready to go to bed, he hears a knock on the door. It's from a man named Cai Mingyu, who wants to know if he's in a relationship. When the narrator tells him it's not a serious relationship, the man says that he'll do whatever he wants to do about it.