So your finish is what Mr Renhe Ren saw... or hoped for that would happen? He hoped he would be right and Zhāng his wife would die, his daughter soon too and he would be the one to send his enemy away/out of the village?
So your finish is what Mr Renhe Ren saw... or hoped for that would happen? He hoped he would be right and Zhāng his wife would die, his daughter soon too and he would be the one to send his enemy away/out of the village?
How I intended it to come across is Ren returns home. There he's met by an elder of whom he'd had problems with in the past. The elder had the wife and daughter. The person screwing with Ren was close with the elder. The elder took in troubled person, ignoring what he'd heard about him. When that person's true colors emerged, the elder sent him down the river. He tells Ren without telling him or know that Ren had seen his old enemy face down in the river. My goal here was to say it without saying it because we know from the first half what Ren saw.
This is also a take on a situation in my personal life. There was this con-artist coming to the Y. - I'd been conned by him and known other who suffered the same fate. - I warned the Y about this person when I noticed he was sneaking in. The Y let him get a membership. Do you know how difficult to be around a person who you know beyond a shadow of a doubt is a psychopath and not flip out because other people who see the psychopath as "well put together" will look at you like you're a nut case? I kept my mouth shut when around him and I gently warned others not to close to him of his behavior. Eventually, he was suspended from the Y. I didn't have to do anything. He did it to himself by sleeping in the Y, stealing locker space, and other things I've yet to hear about.
My hat's off to you Tristan! It's hard as hell to stand by quietly when you know the true character of a person. While there's always the chance that they've changed, it doesn't happen all that often to someone who's been able to get away with their lies and/or selfish behavior. There's a 'man' (using the term loosely here for he's anything but) who abused a daughter (she was 6 at the time) of my friend (BADLY) but because he was underage at the time (15 then, he's now 26 or 27), was given house arrest and counseling to rehabilitate him. According to the law, he's paid his dues but, I can't help but wonder if he's truly sorry for what he did and has changed. Though I don't see him often, maybe once or twice a year, it makes me sick to see him happy and laughing it up with the deli clerk or the supermarket teller when I do. To anyone's knowledge, he's not done anything physical like that since but according to his mother (a relative of my friend) he is an asshole to his current wife.