The next morning, the Hostess arrives at the house of Lu Wenhui and Zong Mingwei, who have just received an invitation to a baby shower for their son. The Hostess tells the couple that she is meeting a client and that she will be arriving at their house at the same time as the baby. When the Hostess asks who the client is, the couple replies that it is a client of the Hostess's. She tells the Hostess that the client's daughter is named "quan zheng," which means "love of life." The Hostess is shocked to learn that the daughter of the woman she met at the party is not her own daughter, but a common relative of hers.