The chapter opens with a flashback to the beginning of the previous chapter, in which the narrator explains that his mother had seen the video of feng-xing and yan-bang's lovemaking, but she had not been able to see the actual video of the lovers. The flashback then shifts to the present, where the narrator tells his mother that he has found out that the woman in question is Lin, and that she has been forced to flee the country by "feng-li-xin" . The narrator then tells his father that he is allowed to take five and four with him to catch the woman.