"Bai Ju, what you just said isn't right. She's just a bastard, and we've been more than good to her already. If it wasn't for our uncle and aunt picking her up, she'd have nothing to do with us. By now, she probably would have died without a trace! Our family has the grace of raising her." Bai Mei found Bai Ju's inability to discern right from wrong intolerable and wished she could knock some sense into her foolish sister.
"Grandma said her birth mother was a shameless and despicable woman, who ruined her before she was married. Her birth father was no better; her mother sent him back to the city after much hardship, hoping he would take them back once he settled there. But as soon as he returned, he climbed the social ladder and married another woman, leading to her mother's death in childbirth. If it weren't for the kindness of our uncle and aunt, who raised the child, Bai Xiao would have died many years ago."