"... so ... is that an agreement slap or a disagreement slap? I'm gonna get slapped again for asking that, aren't I? Wow, why is it that understanding can only be born from pain?"
It's too much to hope that the next chapter opens up with Su Li saying, "Oh well," and tossing the bag aside while the story moves to something completely different, isn't it?
Seems like the sort of thing you'd go for -- no depraved women to clutter up your aesthetic experience, and so many hard hard men making hard hard choices.