"Don't people there live in cave dwellings? Isn't it normal to empty a urinal every morning?"
"Aunt Millie is honest and hardworking. Why did you bully her?"
"Mom and Dad work so hard every day. Can you stop causing trouble?"
"If you're angry, come at me instead. Why don't you just hit me?"
He looked at me with disdain, as if he had already seen through my so-called ‘schemes.'
My mother immediately pulled him into her arms, heart aching.
"Cedrick, you don't need to endure this. You're the treasure we cherish the most. How could we ever let someone hit you?"
"Try touching him again and I'll make you pay!" Adeline pointed at me and shouted, her voice sharp and vicious like a street thug's.
I sighed.
"Our research institute chose the Loess Plateau to ensure environmental stability for experiments," I said calmly.
"This isn't the 1980s. Who still lives in cave dwellings now?"
"If you didn't want me to come back, you didn't have to go this far."
"Putting a urinal in a villa—has the Zamora family really fallen into such bizarre habits?"