"...Back when things were tough at home, when we barely had enough food for the next meal, our entire family still tightened our belts and gritted our teeth to put you through school—whatever little we had of value was sent to support your education. When you were admitted to Beijing University and allocated a job, we thought you'd finally be able to give something back, to help put your two younger brothers through school. But who could've imagined you'd make such a mistake? Your father and I lived honestly our entire lives, and now to be scorned and pointed at in our old age... Your wife is from the city, and I understand she looks down on her mother-in-law, but Xiaoyan is my own flesh and blood grandchild. How can she raise him to not even recognize his own grandparents, to not even visit his ancestral home? Elder son, as the eldest, with Xiaoyan as the eldest grandchild, you can't let him break the traditions of the Jiang Family and become ungrateful and cold-hearted..."