"Well said!" Your father slammed his hand on the table at that moment, startling everyone nearby.
Your mother gave your father an annoyed look and said to you, "That was something I said to encourage you back then, you're not that crybaby anymore."
When you were little, you were timid and often bullied, which caused your parents a lot of worry.
"But Mom, you should know, this is a world where the strong prey on the weak, survival of the fittest! The weak can only wag their tails and plead, crawling on their knees. Let me be blunt, if Grandpa were just an ordinary veteran, if I were just an ordinary high school student, then Dad would likely have already perished in prison."
"Ptooey! Crow's mouth!"
"It's the truth, the world is inherently like this. Of course, if we were all ordinary people and lived an honest, straightforward life, normally no one would trouble us. However, it's clear that's not possible now."
