"Bunny is right. Daughter-in-law, you can't treat people the way you did in the past. Right now, things are not that bad yet, but people would still fight for resources.
Things are going to get worse, and supplies will become scarce. When that happens, the people you feel sorry for and indulged will probably hold a gun to your head and take everything you have.
If not, they may even hold your family hostage and force you to exchange them for everything you have. What will you do then?" Grandpa Chu painted a very horrific but realistic picture.
Mother Chu may be soft-hearted and a philanthropist, but her family was her bottom line. As long as they were threatened, everything else didn't matter.
So, when she heard Grandpa Chu mentioning holding the family hostage, she no longer cared about what those people had suffered at her daughter's hands.
She may be selfish, but being an orphan has taught her to cherish her family.
