103-Hope for the Best
Added 2023-01-17 02:24:49 +0000 UTCDon't mind the picture showing up, that's just an example of paper money we burn for the dead. Apparently, it is now illegal to make them in the form of Chinese yen because people got too good at making them realistic and started using them as counterfeit bills.
Update: Three cultural notes added to the end, I missed them while editing the chapter. For those of you who have already read it, the cultural notes are as follows:
聪明反被聪明误/Cleverness will be tripped up by cleverness: A Chinese saying meaning that being overconfident or overthinking something through your own cleverness is likely to come back and bite you in the end. For example, you overthink a simple task you were given by your boss and do something he never asked for–in the end you get yelled at for not doing your work properly.
抛砖引玉/Tossing a brick to discover jade: An Ancient Chinese proverb meaning to use something of lesser quality to draw out something with better quality. However, it can generally be meant to lure out what you want–for example, pretending you have evidence so that the criminal panics and goes to check if his evidence is still hidden, so if you follow him, you’ll find where the actual evidence is.
弄巧成拙/Trying to be clever and making a foolish blunder: An Ancient Chinese proverb meaning to try and fail to make a clever move, and instead trip yourself up.
