Those so-called sorrows are merely thoughts unique to one's own heart, no one else can understand them, and many things can't be achieved just because one wishes for them.
How could Zhang Zhentian possibly not know what his son's words truly meant? As a father, he knew his own son best, yet he chose to say nothing, silently accepting every word his child told him. He humbly believed being good to his child, carried the hope that his child would sincerely forgive him and allow him to stay home, only then at that moment would he truly be able to set down the burden in his heart, feeling less guilty within.
In the past, due to his own selfishness, he abandoned the entire family, the entire clan, causing his father to endure so many hardships, while he, as a son, lived happily outside with his own life. What face did he have to demand so much love from his father? Why did he make his kin come again and again, saddened and tearful by his actions, yet remain indifferent himself?
