"At that moment, I felt deep despair, a feeling like I wanted to cry," Lai recounts. He often felt he was an outsider in his own homeland. Though he wanted to contribute something back, his efforts were instead cruelly thwarted.
「瞬間我覺得很淒涼，有一種想哭的感覺，」賴其萬說，他常常覺得自己是「故鄉的異鄉人」，滿心想回饋鄉里，卻被無情地糟蹋。