No one is perfect.
When the Creator made humanity, He probably left everyone with their own shortcomings.
In Chen Junyi's eyes, her father's love and pampering for her since childhood had been almost absurdly excessive.
For example, when she had kicked a stone while walking as a child and accidentally fallen, her father had practically wanted to dig that stone out of the ground and tear it to pieces.
Yet even so, from the perspective she had gained after growing up, her father was not without flaws.
For instance, his somewhat old-fashioned and domineering male chauvinism was one of his shortcomings.
She certainly could not agree with that view of his.
But as an adult—especially one who had grown up receiving so much kindness and protection from her father—she was unwilling to openly defy him, oppose his ideas head-on, and turn the atmosphere between father and daughter into one of drawn swords and taut nerves.
As the saying went: Filial piety came before all else.
To be filial was simply to carry on another's aspirations and faithfully continue their work.
In Confucius's view, true filial piety had never meant blindly obeying one's elders one hundred percent, without distinguishing right from wrong or retaining the slightest personal will.
What Confucius had meant was that, as a junior, one first had to determine whether one's elders were on the right path.
If they were wrong, one should tactfully help correct them.
If they were right, then one should build upon their foundation, inherit and promote their aspirations, and pass on the worthy parts.
Her father's intentions were naturally good. He sincerely hoped that she could contribute her modest share to China's sports industry.
But within those expectations, it was certainly wrong for him to rank different sports into classes and grades.
Chen