Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, really had some incredible audacity...

‌Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, lived as a local hoodlum until the age of 40.
(To be precise, he acted as a local neighborhood watch leader.)
But a few years later, he conquered the world
and became the most noble person on earth...
Back when Liu Bang was a local hoodlum,
he used to go to his elder brother's widow's house every day to beg for food.
His elder brother had already passed away,
and his sister-in-law was living in hardship.
Yet, he would bring his friends and lackeys
to her house every single day, demanding food...
Everyone, is this even human behavior?
Even a freeloader should have at least a shred of conscience.
To bring a whole gang of lackeys to the house of a destitute widow
and deplete her grain supplies—
this is no ordinary level of audacity.
Isn't he practically no different from a bandit?
After enduring it for so long, when the sister-in-law finally scolded him,
he held a grudge. Even after becoming Emperor later on,
he refused to grant a title to his eldest nephew.
It was only after his father, Liu Tai Gong, mediated that he finally granted a title,
but the title he gave was "Yin Jie" (陰截),
which implies scraping a pot with a ladle to mock someone.
His grudge is truly something else...
I wonder if this level of shamelessness is a passive skill
required to start from the bottom and achieve such massive success.