Meanwhile, her husband is out womanizing. Ying-ying comes to love her husband, and try to please him. Six months later, she is married to this very bad man. When she is sixteen, she meets the man she knows she will later marry. Ying-ying’s family is immensely wealthy, and she is stubborn and wild and independent. We flash back to Ying-ying as a pretty young girl in Wushi, China. Ying-ying decides that the only way to save her daughter is to tell her about the past. In the present day, Ying-ying is in her adult daughter’s guest bedroom, and she sees her daughter’s house as ready to break into pieces. Ying-ying’s baby boy is stillborn, which she knew would happen but did nothing to prevent. Clifford figures it to be "nesting instincts," because Ying-ying is expecting a baby. Ying-ying is unhappy in this new apartment, muttering about things not being balanced, and spends time constantly rearranging the furniture and appliances. Her family moves from Oakland to the North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco, where their apartment was on a very steep hill. Ying-ying’s husband, an American named Clifford, gave his wife a new name and birth date on her papers. From the picture, she looks scared, waiting for something to happen. Ying-ying comes to America via Angel Island. Her secret wish to the Moon Lady was that she be found. As Ying-ying ages, she begins to remember how she lost herself. In the present day, Ying-ying has forgotten both her secret wish and her eventual return to her family. As Ying-ying declares her wish, she realizes that the Moon Lady is a man. Ying-ying runs to tell the Moon Lady her secret wish, but as she runs closer and closer, the beautiful Moon Lady turns into an ugly figure. She is utterly entranced by the Moon Lady’s tragic tale she sobs at the end of the play, drawing a connection between her own loss and the Moon Lady’s loss of the world. Ying-ying forgets her troubles when she watches a play about the Moon Lady. They ask her to point to her boat, and she mistakenly points to a boat where the little girl is safe. No one comes, and when the fireworks go off, Ying-ying falls into the lake. Ying-ying continues standing in the back of the boat, waiting for her mother to come scold her. Her nanny finds her, scolds her, and removes all her clothes. Ying-ying’s new clothes are completely soiled. She watches an old woman gut and clean the fish. 
She watches boys using a bird to catch fish.Finally the family is brought to the lake by a team of rickshaws.Throughout the morning, Ying-ying is very impatient to get to the boat.They have rented a boat on Tai Lake, and Ying-ying’s nanny promises that she will meet the Moon Lady.
Relatives from all over arrive to celebrate the Moon Festival.In 1918, when Ying-ying was four, she awoke to many preparations for the Moon Festival, i.e., she is dressed in pretty clothes.
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