What is the most troublesome thing for parents? It's their child's rebellious phase, truly infuriating and helpless. You can't really bring yourself to hit them, and reasoning just doesn't get through because they stick stubbornly to their own views, which is profoundly frustrating.
And now, Jiang Liu was giving the Bodhisattva the same feeling.
Reason with him? It was completely ineffective, and he even had his own lofty reasons that could leave you speechless.
Get physical? How do you get physical? Could you really tie him up and force him to set off on the Journey to the West?
So, at first, both Guanyin and Jiang Liu were spouting long discourses, trying to persuade each other, but after a long time arguing back and forth, both seemed to realize that it was tough to convince the other with words alone and gradually stopped talking.
The two of them stared at each other, neither uttering a word.
