The ancients watched me play the Starry Sky Railway

"I deeply regret the choice you made. Now, let's move on to the second choice. This time, it's the story of a dream chaser."

"Sunday continued."

“This story takes place during my tenure as ‘Douyin’. Duoyin is a position unique to the Oak family, responsible for listening to the confusion and bewilderment of the residents of the Dream Realm and providing them with appropriate guidance.”

“It was during that time that I was able to listen to the voices from all sides of my dreams: joy, sorrow, arrogance, regret… The complexities of human nature weave the world, and I was fortunate to glimpse a small part of it.”

"He was a dream chaser, a stowaway. Like everyone else, he came to Pinocchio with a yearning for a better life, but the price he paid... for a mortal... would be enough to be called 'giving it all.'"

"He told me he'd sold everything he could—his house, his land, his two children... He said he couldn't afford to support them, and that slavery would at least give him something to eat."

"He had a plan in place: once he became wealthy, he would redeem the child and share in Pinocchio's dream. Unfortunately, his smuggling plan was a bit clumsy, and those stubborn hounds sniffed it out."

"After hearing the story of this dream chaser, I immediately asked the hound family to stop hunting so that he could live in peace. Unfortunately, my vision was too short-sighted. I never imagined that this self-righteous act of kindness would later lead to bitter consequences..."

"I'll keep the exact consequences a secret for a moment. Now, I want you to make your choice—"

"Should you make the same decision as me and convince the Hound family to stop searching so that the dream chaser can survive and realize his wish?"

"Or remain silent and let him linger under the hounds until the inevitable judgment comes?"

"Bitter fruit? How could it be such a bitter fruit? Wasn't it a good deed done on Sunday?"

Gou Jian felt strange.

The hound family stopped chasing the stowaway, giving the stowaway the opportunity to make money and redeem his child. What kind of bitter consequences could this bring?

"Maybe..." Fan Li hesitated to speak.

"Maybe what?"

"No, my lord, it's nothing."

Fan Li didn't say anything in the end.

In Fan Li's opinion, if one simply couldn't survive and therefore sold the child, it would be understandable.

At least the child could barely survive as a slave.

But that stowaway sold his children and his property, and was able to leave his planet and come to Pinocchio to try to make a fortune... This shows that he still has some money left.

How else can you run a business? Would you just be a bricklayer?

That can't be called doing business, it's nothing more than selling hard labor. Selling hard labor is something that you can only barely make a living even if you do it for your whole life.

Therefore, after the stowaway sold everything, he must have had a considerable amount of money left.

A person who can't survive will not think of using the only steamed bun in his hand to do business!

From this, it can be seen that the man did not sell the child because he could not survive, but because he wanted to have start-up capital for his business, so he sold everything including the child!

Sunday was still too naive at that time, and he was deceived by the misery pretended by the stowaway.

How can a person who would heartlessly sell everything including his children be an ordinary person?

That stowaway was simply...

Fan Li secretly glanced at Gou Jian out of the corner of his eye.

Just like Gou Jian!

In order to take revenge on the State of Wu, Gou Jian also sold everything he had. He asked his wife to wash clothes for King Fuchai of Wu, his daughter to be a slave sweeping the floor, and his son to be a servant in the palace.

Even when King Fuchai was sick, Gou Jian tasted his feces to determine the cause of his illness in order to gain his trust.

Can someone who is so cold-blooded and heartless be a good person?

Fan Li dared to conclude that even if the smuggler made money, he would never redeem his child!

This kind of person can only share adversity, but not wealth!

So... he also has to prepare a retreat.

Once the State of Wu was defeated, Fan Li had to flee immediately, otherwise he would be killed by Gou Jian.

…………

“It seems stowaways are really common in Pinocchio… But I don’t think the guy in the story deserves any sympathy at all. He even sold his child to pursue his dream… Even if he intended to redeem him, it’s so irresponsible!”

"On March 7th, I was filled with righteous indignation, yet felt the agony of not being able to reach out and slap that illegal immigrant."

"So, her choice is clear. She's going to have the Hound family send that stowaway back. Such people must be punished!"

"Miss March is truly pure-hearted. All her judgments are based entirely on the most basic human concepts of good and evil."

"She didn't consider that the Hound family wouldn't simply send their captors back unharmed, but would instead punish them severely... Otherwise, how could they deter other stowaways?"

"They also didn't consider that if the stowaway was sent back, he would have lost all his opportunities and would most likely die miserably in a corner, and his two children would be slaves for the rest of their lives."

"She simply believed that if she did something wrong she would be punished."

"It's clearly a pure heart, but when it comes to the law, it's truly cold and cruel. But... should the law be humane?"

Xunzi couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and the more he thought, the more he wandered away.

It is certainly a sin for a person to steal, but what if he steals to treat his sick mother?

Is this the fault of the thief, or the fault of the disease?

Xunzi's thoughts were constantly shifting from Confucianism to Legalism, so it is no wonder that he was able to teach two great Legalists.

…………

"But Jizi said, 'Out of kindness, I should ask the Hound family to stop the pursuit and give him a hand. But what kind of 'bitter consequences' will this choice bring? I believe that Sunday must have deeply realized the limitations of 'supporting the weak with the strong' through this incident.'"

"As for Liuying, she wasn't thinking about this question, but was thinking about the purpose of asking this question on Sunday."

"This question...is intrinsically linked to Hina's story, and this connection is the key to Sunday's convincing us...As for my choice, it should be the same as Himeko-san's."

"Hearing that both of them had made different choices from his own, Sanyueqi looked at Xing unhappily, wanting to hear her answer."

"Being looked at like that by Sanyueqi, Xing scratched his head. So, should I follow Sanyueqi's choice?"