The chapter opens in the news terminal of the Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The narrator is anxious to go to the amusement park, but he is afraid that the place is not as exciting as he thinks it is. He decides to go anyway. He tells us that he has not seen the chairperson of the park in a long while, and he wonders how she is doing. The amusement park will be a haunted house, and the narrator will be able to win the heart of the woman with his "aunted masculinity" .