"If he abandoned you, you'd have been in like, foster care or something, and you might have been raised by someone who like, actually wanted a child? I don't think you need to be grateful for the absolute scraps of nothing and using you for free labor and not murdering you that he did. That is like. Bare the fuck minimum and below it."

Shang Beida kisses the other's hair. "And that says more about you than it does about him, baobei. You turned out a good person despite him, not because of him. And... we're not the only ones on the boat. Not the only powerful ones, either. I managed to hurt him enough to get him to back off. If we get some of the others to help, maybe we can actually kill him. Maybe Wet Justice can just remove all the water in his body, that would be efficient."