"You have to believe that the struggle will smile at you because you love you, which means that you have done well. Even if his biological father is still alive, it is not necessarily better than you. You have lived up to the challenge of your father. You are a competent father, and he will be satisfied when he looks at you in the sky."

the man slowly released her, holding the girl's face in his hands, gently stroked it with his thin cocoon thumb, and stared at her clear eyes.

I don't know if it's Butong's illusion, but I can see that there's a shimmering water under the man's...