Gemini Joe Cheng’s birthday is approaching, before the day of mother’s pain (literal translation from chinese), having grown up in a single parent family, he gets emotional. Because of his parent’s separation, he practically grew up overnight, thinking back to when he was once so jealous of other kids having both their parents around, his sister and him used to hide in their blankets crying, he feels emotional.
The focus on ISWAK 2 is on how Joe Cheng and Ariel Lin manage their lives after marriage. To Joe whose parents have been apart since young, he had no prior experience to learn from, hence making it challenging for him when it came to fleshing out his character.
Joe says, during his childhood, he was very stubborn and reliant on his mother. Once when he woke up to find his mother not around, he even spoiled a sofa by kicking it; and when he once wet his pants in school, he refused to let his teacher change it for him. insisting that his teacher called his mother down to help him change.
But when his parents divorced when he was in primary 3, due to his father having to work, his sister and him depended on each other alot. He says that children can never understand the world of adults, at the start, he found it embarrassing not to have a mother, telling lies in school, saying that his mother was a tour guide hence often not at home. For quite a long while, being prevented from seeing his mother, his sister and him used to contact her secretly.
Right now, looking back at his parents’ unhappy marriage, Joe says that between a man and woman, there isn’t anyone besides the two of them with the right to say anything. To him, his dad is still his dad, his mom, still his mom. When he turned 18, he decided to live his life on his own terms, striking a deal with his father, he moved up north to taipei from taichung to work and lived with his mother. Now, his parents are both his superfans, and family is still his greatest pillar of support whenever he is down.
Translated by chipmunk0318[by francesca]
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