The author devotes three chapters to describing this city of horrors. A high school classmate of hers, Kao Chi-fen, had become commander of the East Is Red Revolutionary Brigades and wielded the power of life and death. She lived in a carpeted Western-style house, with confiscated copies of banned books like The Golden Lotus and Black and Red on her shelves.
作者用了三個篇章描述這個「鬼域」：當年高中的女同學高冀芬竟然躍成「東方紅造反兵團」的司令，操生殺之權，住的是鋪有地毯的洋房，抄家得來的「金瓶梅」、「紅與黑」等禁書，卻放在自己的書架上。