Part Three, Pages 213 through 336 Summary

Min goes home on a Sunday afternoon. Coral has been sent to Red Fire Farm. Blooming is at boarding school and Space Conqueror working at a tractor factory. Min's mother is reading and Min asks her to explain love. Min's mother says only that Min has embarrassed her and Min is left only with what information she has accumulated on her own - that she loves Yan and had given her "full love" to Yan. On another day, Min stops by her home while out doing errands and finds a net filled with turtles and fish in her yard. Min finds Yan waiting and takes her inside. Yan says that she wants to meet with Leopard and asks Min to stand guard for them. Min agrees. The girls have several hours before Leopard is due to arrive...