Just before dinner, Nie Huaisang finishes the last character of the fourth copy of the first chapter of Romance of the Jade Princess.

The plot of the first chapter is as follows:

There are three flowers. They appeal to a bodhisattva that they would like to be able to understand love. Touched by their yearning, the bodhisattva allows them to reincarnate as three people.

The three flowers are reborn as three sisters, Chrysanthemum, Peony, and Lotus. The three sisters are prostitutes in the beautiful city of Chang'an. Chrysanthemum has grown cynical and no longer believes in such a thing as love; her maid, however, is pining after her. Peony is in mourning because her beloved best friend was lost at sea and is believed dead. A scholar sees her and falls in love with her at first sight. It is Lotus's debut as a sex worker tonight, and she's very frightened; she has sex with an older man who is very kind and gentle to her, and she has her first orgasm. The books are illustrated with a picture of the sisters that isn't not horny. 

He takes the first copy of the book off to Jing Yi.