For many years, the coldness of the younger daughter made Mrs. Li feel so aggrieved, so wronged.
She's a mother, a mother who's concerned about her eldest daughter. Was she wrong? She's just a mother.
As a mother, caring about her daughter is perfectly natural, a matter of course.
But this natural concern, in the eyes of the younger daughter, is betrayal.
She betrayed the younger daughter for the sake of the eldest daughter.
So, not to mention the monthly pocket money, she doesn't even buy her new clothes each season. How aggrieved she feels, who knows?
No matter how much she favors the eldest daughter, she has raised the younger daughter too. She is also the younger daughter's mother; she has the grace of giving birth and raising her. Why does the younger daughter not respect her?
That damned girl is an unfilial daughter. Her previous filial piety was surely all an act. Now that she's done acting, she doesn't want to keep up the act anymore.
It must be like this.
