"Whether or not you owe money, won't we find out in a few days? You’re staying there anyway, so it’s not as if people can’t find your home. You brought all these people here today claiming you wanted to reconnect, but in reality, you just wanted to use them to pressure my mother. You wanted to force her to accept you by putting her through a trial of familial morality.
"Since you were the ones who abandoned my mother back then, don't try to pull this stunt now. You clearly had money, and you knew perfectly well that you weren't far from your relatives, yet you still abandoned her. So many years have passed, and it’s not as if the distance was insurmountable, but you never once came to look for her.
"Now you want to use moral kidnapping to force us into a compromise? Do you really think everyone in our family is a pushover? Let me tell you, unlike you, our family doesn’t value men over women—women can hold up half the sky. Since we were able to make it through those hardships, we aren't afraid of your threats.
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