Aftershock (2010)

Fan Xu: Li Yuanni

Quotes 

• Li Yuanni : Daqiang, Fang Deng, don't mind me being annoying. Every year when burning paper offerings, we've been talking to you both. We've moved. If you want to come back, don't go the wrong way, ok? Our alleyway is next to the railway school. At the first row of houses, turn left. The first one is our home. Remember that! Where we used to live, they're building a department mall. So we can't move back there.

  Fang Da : Mom, dad and elder sis have already been dead for ten years. How could they still come back? I feel spooked hearing you keep saying such things.

  Li Yuanni : I've no idea how to tell your dad and elder sis... I was so looking forward to the day of your college entrance exam. Yet you didn't even bother stepping into the exam hall. Why can't you be more sensible? You made me feel so disappointed.

  Fang Da : [surly]  Disappointed... If you had known, you should have saved elder sis instead, shouldn't you?

• Li Yuanni : But I'm against it precisely because of your dad and elder sis. The last time we moved, I had to tell them exactly how to get to our new place. And I've been telling them constantly for more than 20 years. If I were to move again, I would've to tell them the new directions. I can't keep telling them anymore. I'm tired of telling them. End of discussion. I'm not moving anywhere.

• Li Yuanni : I've endured great grief, surely I can also bear with great happiness. Where does your sister-in-law live?

  Xiao He : Canada.

  Li Yuanni : [sighs]  She has been hiding so far away from me.

• Li Yuanni : [on knees, tearful]  I've been thinking of you both all day every day. I've been thinking of you for 32 years. Why have you ignored me? Where have you been all this while? Why did you take so long to come back?

• Li Yuanni : So who took care of you after you gave birth? What about the child's father?

  Fang Deng : He left the country. I lost touch with him.

  Li Yuanni : Didn't you ask someone to help find him?

  Fang Deng : He didn't want me anymore. What's the point?

• Li Yuanni : [at tomb]  Daqiang... you love me so much... that you have sent our daughter back.

• Fang Deng : [tearfully]  Mom, how have you managed all these years?

  Li Yuanni : I've been doing quite alright.

  Fang Deng : How many 30 years are there in a woman's lifetime? Why did you do that?

  Li Yuanni : Really, I've been doing quite alright. If I'd instead led a carefree life, I would be letting you down even more.

  Fang Deng : Mom, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. From the first moment I set eyes on Fang Da, I started to hate myself. He is my little brother... how wonderful that he has survived. Mom, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I've tortured you for 32 years.