"Not long after that, my friends 'parents told them they couldn't associate with me. The parents were afraid I'd turn them into bad kids. But the kids who were a little wild sought me out." Hsiao-kang, who wanted to do well at everything and had pride in himself, couldn't bear the way he was viewed by others, whether with pity or with disdain.
「之後沒多久，好朋友的父母叫他們不要跟我來往，怕被我帶壞；愛玩的同學反倒主動找上我」，好強、要面子的小康無法忍受別人的眼光，無論是同情或鄙視。