- Inflated self-esteem: Believing oneself to be special and superior to others.
- Need for admiration: Strong desire for praise and approval from others, feeling dissatisfied if it is not received.
- Lack of empathy: Deficiency in understanding the feelings and needs of others.
- Manipulative behavior: Tendency to use others to achieve one’s own goals.
- Self-centered: Ignoring the feelings and needs of others, prioritizing one’s own benefits and recognition.
- Grandiose fantasies: Holding exaggerated fantasies about success, power, beauty, and ideal love.
- Jealousy: Envying others’ success and happiness, and feeling that others are envious of oneself.
- Easily hurt and sensitive to rejection: Having a fragile self-esteem and being deeply hurt by even slight criticism or rejection.
He appears friendly and compassionate on the outside, gaining people’s trust through emotional speeches and volunteer activities. However, inside he is cold and self-centered, ignoring the emotions and needs of others. When helping people, he does so with the expectation that someone is watching, to enhance his own reputation. At home, he abuses his wife and son, lowering their self-esteem.
Underlying Thought Process
Walter Grand has a strong desire to be the best in both his family and society, and to be loved by everyone. He overestimates his own value and constantly seeks praise and approval from others. Therefore, he believes that any means are justified to enhance his own benefits and recognition.
Specific Traits
- Friendly facade: Acts friendly and compassionate on the outside to gain praise and trust from others.
- Emotional speeches: Delivers emotional speeches to move people’s hearts and establish himself as a righteous leader.
- Calculated help: Helps others with the awareness that someone is watching, using it as a means to enhance his own reputation.
- Domestic abuse: Abuses his wife and son at home, lowering their self-esteem and asserting his absolute authority.
Walter Grand’s actions reflect his need for praise and approval from others, feeling that manipulating others and presenting himself as superior is necessary to obtain it. His inner coldness and self-centeredness are strongly tied to this underlying thought process.
He is intelligent and logical, with a strong sense of justice. He gathers evidence and acts to expose Walter’s hypocrisy and wrongdoing. Under stress, he may show temporary intense stress reactions but strives to maintain a calm demeanor.
She continues to endure her husband’s abuse, often suppressing her own emotions and needs. The prolonged mental pressure has led to low self-esteem and depression. Despite being hurt by her husband’s cold words, she cannot publicly condemn him due to her role as a family member, carrying her internal suffering in silence.
He is introverted and easily anxious. Due to his father’s excessive expectations and criticism, he harbors a fear of others’ evaluations. In school projects and daily life, he is always concerned about his father’s judgment.
She is calm and rational. She has long harbored doubts about her brother’s hypocrisy but has not taken direct action, observing from afar. She struggles between family ties and doubts about her brother, becoming overly sensitive to stress due to adjustment disorder.
A Glittering Night in Tokyo
On a glittering night in Tokyo, a grand party was being held amidst the dazzling cityscape. Walter Grand stood at the center of the party, smiling and shaking hands with people. He seemed very friendly and kind. He was enthusiastic about volunteer work and delivered emotional speeches, earning people's trust.
“I am truly delighted to spend this wonderful night with all of you who are working hard for your families,”
Walter said, gripping the microphone and addressing the audience.
“I also believe that family is the most important thing. I work hard every day for my wife, Christine Truce, and my son.”
The guests expressed their admiration for his words. A lady standing next to him said with a smile,
“Mr. Grand, it’s wonderful how you cherish your family. It makes us all feel happy. You’re such an amazing husband.”
Walter modestly smiled, looking pleased.
“Working for my family is my greatest joy,”
Walter continued.
“I believe that a happy family leads to the happiness of each of us.”
The party guests were deeply moved by his words, and applause filled the room. Walter’s outward appearance was perfect. Everyone praised him as the ideal husband and father, touched by his words.
Coldness at Home
However, behind that smile lay a cold and calculating side. At home, Walter repeatedly behaved coldly towards his wife Christine Truce and their son. Although Christine Truce was working, Walter belittled her job.
“It’s a job that will eventually be replaced by AI,”
he mocked,
“My job is the only one that AI can’t replace. So you have no right to give me orders about it.”
He said, hurting Christine Truce.
He constantly criticized his family, lowering their self-esteem. For example, when his son won an award for a school project, he said,
“That’s great, but it might not be useful in the real world.”
These words hurt his son deeply. Christine Truce fell into depression because of this, and their son developed social anxiety disorder.
One day, Christine Truce looked at him seriously and said,
“I can’t stand being with you anymore. It’s too hard on me. I want to leave.”
Walter pretended to reflect and said,
“I’m sorry, it was my fault. I really regret it.”
Then he offered favorable conditions, saying,
“I’ll give you my entire salary,” and “I’ll do whatever you say.”
trying to keep Christine Truce from leaving. But once she returned, he reverted to his cold attitude, manipulating her and making her obey his every command.
When Christine Truce brought up divorce again, Walter said,
“I don’t understand why you’re talking about divorce. We’ve always been a calm and stable couple. We can continue to live happily together.”
He started making unreasonable claims and refused to agree. Even if he apologized, when Christine Truce didn’t change her mind, he firmly claimed,
“I’m not at fault.”
showing a stance of refusing to take any blame.
Exposing Hypocrisy
One day, in the waiting room, his colleague Toby S. Carter talked about a wonderful proposal for a new social policy. Walter presented this proposal as his own during the next day’s recording, tearfully saying,
“This policy is a solution I’ve been considering for many years.”
capturing the audience’s hearts.
Toby was shocked but couldn’t publicly protest. Walter’s hypocritical behavior caused Toby to lose job opportunities, leaving him deeply disillusioned and angry.
Walter Grand’s actions caused great pain to his family, friends, and colleagues. His wife Christine Truce, their son, and his sister Mary Grand were all fed up with his behavior, deeply resenting him. But because they were family and had blood ties, they feared that exposing Walter’s misdeeds would make them look crazy too, and they had no choice but to protect him.
His sister Mary Grand had long harbored doubts about his actions but didn’t take direct action. She just watched from afar through social media and television.
Toby’s Resolve and Exposure
While Christine Truce and the family continued to endure, Toby S. Carter resolved to reveal the truth. He planned to expose Walter’s hypocrisy on a debate program, gathering concrete evidence. The decisive day came, and Toby appeared on a live debate program, revealing Walter’s cold behavior and hypocrisy. He conveyed the truth to the viewers, bringing Walter’s hypocritical actions and wrongdoing to light.
Christine Truce and the family were even more perplexed. They were fed up with Walter’s behavior, but now that the facts were made public, they were bewildered. However, because Walter had done terrible things to enemies and people who weren’t beneficial to him, the family eventually had no choice but to say,
“There’s nothing we can do. It’s his own fault.”
Mary whispered quietly as she watched her brother being punished.
“I always thought this would happen someday. It’s his own fault.”
Family Support and a New Beginning
Due to Toby’s exposure, people who had been socially crushed by Walter started speaking up. They revealed,
“This is what really happened back then.”
One after another, they revealed the facts, exposing Walter’s true nature. This made Christine Truce and the family even more perplexed, but in the end, they resigned themselves to the fact that it was Walter’s own fault. The viewers began to support Christine Truce and Toby, understanding what they had endured.
Christine Truce started a social media platform to overcome abuse, gaining support from many people and succeeding as an influencer. Their son also realized that his father was wrong and gained confidence in his own efforts. He continued to excel in his studies, eventually going to university and starting a new future.
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