"Dashi, you heartless person. I, your mother, have tirelessly guided you lot of bad bamboo on the right path, selling snacks, buying land, raising pigs, mixing pesticides. Not a single thing wasn't accomplished by my own hands, none were due to ancestral blessings."
Tong Huaqiong refused to acknowledge herself as part of the Gu Family, refusing to admit any connection between her and the Gu Family's ancestors.
"With one sentence, you dismiss all of my achievements, and instead attribute the credit to ancestors who had nothing to do with it."
"And your father, does your father deserve it? Even when he was alive, he never gave me a good life; after he died, I managed on my own to live well. He's already buried, yet you want me to give half the credit to him? How shameless you are! If you're so fond of your ancestors and father, why don't you just go and join them?"
