Xu Sanguan and Xu Yulan Relationship Quotes Flashcards
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 3?
- XS uses blood money to buy XY food
- XY is seeing HX
- XS convinces XY’s father to give her to him against her wishes
(XS to XY’s father): “if I marry XY, it would be just the same as if I agreed to take on your family name instead of making XY take mine.”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 5?
- gossip about YL’s parentage in town
- XS accuses XY of sleeping with HX
- XY sits on doorstep wailing about her innocence for the first time
- admits to sleeping with HX once
(XS about XY): “this woman… is a stupid fool. You’re not meant to air your dirty laundry, and here she is, sitting on the doorstep crying for the whole world to hear.”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 13?
*Key chapter - breaking point
- XY is unhappy XS sold his blood as its like selling your ancestors
- XY and HX’s wife have verbal dispute on street and XS doesn’t care
- (XS): “She’s like a broken pot that’s not afraid of shattering, and I’m a dead pig who no longer minds the water’s coming to a boil.”
- “she weepingly made her way to the door… XS growled from behind her, “Come back here, you bitch.”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 14?
- LFF is now fat and has broken her leg
- XS goes to visit her and ends up raping her
(XS to LFF about XY): “if 3 days go by and she hasn’t gone out to the doorstep to cry and carry on, she starts to feel uncomfortable, just like she hadn’t taken a shit for a week.”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 16?
- LFF’s husband brings food back
- he publically announces XS raped his wife
- XY is very upset
“I’ve suffered and I’ve struggled for 10 years now, and I’ve given you 3 sons. When did you ever sell blood for my sake? I never knew what a heartless son of a bitch you are.”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 17?
- power balance battle
- XY strutting around as she was pre-marriage
- XS can’t take action as XY threatens the doorstep
- XS is doing the cooking and neighbours laugh at him
(XY is about to wail on doorstep again, XS): “okay, okay, okay then, I’ll never bring it up again, all right?”
What are XS and XY relationship quotes from Chapter 25?
- Cultural Rev. has begun
- poster slandering XY as ‘broken shoe’ is seen on a wall
- XY is forced to be part of public ‘mass struggle’ and her head is shaved
- XS tries to support her (cutting hair, bringing her food)
- YL and EL refuse to acknowledge their mother
- they are told to denounce XY at home
- YL and EL sent to countryside
- “XS, as long as you’re good to me, I’m not afraid of anything in the world.”
- “If you hate her, you hate me too, because she and I are birds of the same feather.”
