During the winter and summer vacations, his kids preferred to go to Japan or the United States rather than visit with their father in "backward" mainland China. He came to feel more and more like a money machine, and that no one truly cared about his feelings and needs.
讓他心冷了半截；之後孩子寒暑假寧可去日本、去美國，卻不肯到「落後」的大陸探望他，更讓他覺得自己只是賺錢的動物，沒有人在乎他的感受和需要。