This love of power severely warps Chen Pao-min's morals and values. At the end of the story, he sees his own daughter with a male classmate entering a hotel restaurant and rushes back home to "inform" on her to his wife. When he tells her he saw their daughter enter a hotel with a man, the wife just calls him ridiculous and carries on cooking.
這種無法忘情權勢的心態，嚴重扭曲他的道德觀和社會價值觀，文章結尾，他看到自己的女兒和一名男同學進入附設旅館部的餐廳，於是急忙回家「報馬子」，告訴太太，自己親眼看到女兒跟男孩子上旅館，太太罵了句「三八！」