Song Yun'er and Mo Beichen's Secret Dealings

Song Yuner and Mo Beichen’s secret dealings are a concealed, transactional alliance whose significance lies in how it changes the meaning of an earlier encounter. What first looks like a troubling connection between Song and a man pursuing Su Xiangwan is later recast by Song as a bargain: she says Mo and his companions did not touch her, and that cooperation with him was the point of their arrangement. The story establishes the existence of the deal, but leaves its precise terms and the full extent of their collaboration undisclosed.

The connection comes into view

The relationship surfaces through observation rather than a planned confession. While shopping for a suit for Lu Xun and items for their bridal chamber, Su Xiangwan stops for dinner at a restaurant. She sees Mo Beichen and Song arrive one after the other and enter a private room. The sequence gives her grounds for suspicion, but not yet an explanation of what they are doing together.

Mo’s presence carries a particular charge because his pursuit of Su Xiangwan is already described as persistent: he wants her and has tried to provoke her. That context makes his meeting with Song appear potentially dangerous to Su Xiangwan, but it does not establish that the two share a romantic attachment. Their later explanation points instead to an instrumental arrangement, while leaving open what each expected to gain from it.

Contact, suspicion, and confrontation

Su Xiangwan contacts Su Qingrou after seeing the pair. Su Qingrou is surprised that Su Xiangwan already knows they are still in contact. Su Xiangwan explains that she had known before, had wanted to tell her sister, and had failed to do so; until the restaurant sighting, she had not been sure Mo Beichen’s account was credible. The confirmation turns a private suspicion into a fact shared between the sisters, though it still does not reveal the deal’s terms.

The connection becomes harder to dismiss when Song goes to Su Xiangwan’s home. Su Xiangwan does not want to receive her, but Song keeps ringing the bell until she opens the door. During their exchange, Song grabs Su Xiangwan’s arm with unexpected force. The physical confrontation marks a shift from indirect signs of contact to an encounter in which Song presses her own version of events against Su Xiangwan’s suspicions.

Song’s account of the bargain

Song eventually explains that she had never stayed at Lin Yanche’s home and that Mo Beichen and the other men in the private room had not touched her. She says she made a deal with Mo, and that this was why they cooperated. Her account presents the meeting not as an assault but as part of an agreement in which she was an active participant. The scene thus revises the apparent meaning of the private-room meeting: proximity to Mo and his associates had suggested danger, whereas Song describes an arrangement.

The disclosure remains narrow. Song identifies a deal and links it to cooperation, but does not spell out its conditions, duration, or practical results. Nor does the narrative independently detail what Mo promised or what Song supplied. The alliance is therefore clear in outline but opaque in its mechanics; its secrecy is not resolved so much as given a new explanation by one of the people involved.

Meaning and limits of the relationship

The story distinguishes this partnership from Mo Beichen’s pursuit of Su Xiangwan. His established interest in Su Xiangwan gives the alliance immediate relevance to her, but the evidence does not establish that Song and Mo’s deal was a romantic relationship or that its sole purpose was to help Song pursue someone else. What it does show is that their contact was deliberate, sustained enough to be recognized as continuing, and consequential enough for Song to invoke it when explaining the private-room incident.

The relationship also functions as a problem of credibility. Su Xiangwan first has an observation, then a confirmation that the pair remain in contact, and finally Song’s account of what happened. Each step changes what can be inferred without making the arrangement fully transparent. By withholding the bargain’s terms, the narrative leaves the alliance strategically suggestive: Mo’s pursuit of Su Xiangwan and Song’s concealed cooperation intersect, but the precise boundary between their separate aims remains unconfirmed.