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你的穷爸妈出去打工好多年一直没回来应该是没钱不敢回家怕被人笑话吧
Your poor parents have been away working for years and still haven’t come back. They probably don’t have any money and are too ashamed to return home, afraid people will laugh at them.
— I Am What I Am (2021)
I keep forgetting to ask Nicholas about it, and he’s only mentioned them once.
Because I didn’t say what they wanted me to say on TV, she hasn’t spoken to me since.
— 回归 (2006)
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take you there, but it never came.
— 满江红 (2023)
There are some things I’ve never told He Baorong. I don’t want him to recover too quickly.
— 春光乍泄 (1997)