At first, the woman hadn't wanted to tell the child so bluntly.
After all, the other person had been at fault from beginning to end...
She didn't want someone else's wrongdoing to cause a rift between the parents and their child.
Wouldn't that be terrible?
So when she first heard the man speak so bluntly, her heart gave a jolt.
Fortunately, the outcome proved...
The man had been right.
They'd gotten a very good result.
An even better result than they'd expected.
No matter what other people said, nothing could compare to the child changing her own attitude.
That was the key.
A child like this...
Would be less easily deceived by Chen Jing.
The woman's terrible mood, brought on by running into Chen Jing today, who had appeared and acted contrary to expectations, finally eased considerably.
"I worried about that too..."
The man smiled.
"I once had a colleague who did something similar..."
Huh?
The woman was taken aback.
"Something similar?"
"Mm."
The man nodded. "He wouldn't let his child play with a child she was very close to."
"His child cried and threw a tantrum over it."
"She didn't understand why."
"But my colleague was very firm."
"He even slapped his child."
The woman drew in a sharp breath.
"That's too much, isn't it?"
In her view, hitting a child really was going too far.
Children were young.
They didn't know any better.
You could just explain it to them.
If the child wouldn't listen, you could scare her a little.
Children naturally feared their parents.
A stern tone was enough to intimidate them.
There was no need to resort to hitting.
She thought parents who hit their children were unfit parents who couldn't control their emotions.
"Yeah."
The man