In this chapter, the young man, named Xuejing, confronts his real-life boyfriend, the firm's boss, and asks him why he doesn't want to be friends with the boy. The boss tells him that there is no space between him and the boy, and that he should just let the boy know that. The boy is 5 years older than the boss, but the boss says that he's only been at the firm for 2 years, so he wouldn't have been able to refuse the boy if he were younger. But since then, he says, he has come to depend on the boss for his company's success. He tells the boy to relax and not to worry about him, because the boss is worried about him.