In the middle of the month, a messenger arrives at the Lu mansion with a message from the master. The master asks the messenger to deliver medicine, but the messenger refuses, saying that the situation is "turrible" and that he should not be cheated. The messenger gives the master the document he asked for seven years ago, in which the Lu family was eradicated from the city. The orphan tells the master that he killed linzhongxuan because the man deserved it. He also tells the man that he has been a prostitute for the past seven years because of the master's refusal to reveal his past.