In this short scene, the narrator apologizes to his friend, who has taken him to a nearby milk tea shop. The two have not spoken in a long time, and the narrator is embarrassed that he has not been able to communicate with him in a more mature way. He tells his friend that he once turned down a girl who confessed to him that she was in love with someone else. The girl burst into tears and broke into a fit of crying in public. The narrator feels bad when he sees girls crying, and he would feel bad if he did something wrong. He asks the friend to take him back to the subway station.