A street crowd celebrates finding a ticket worth 100,000 and imagines a feast, then the focus shifts to Cece, a little girl who believes helping a troubled man will make her Merit Beads glow. She approaches a distraught, wealthy man and asks if he lost a child. He snaps at her to go away. Onlookers scold Cece; one interrupts, saying, "She's my disciple," and someone points out the man is Mr. Jawson, Cloudton's richest. Cece insists, "I can help you find your child," but his refusal leaves her offer and the search unresolved.