只能怪她投错了胎
“blame her bad fate”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要怪
“She can only”
只能怪她投错了胎
“blame her bad fate”
“to be Yin Dai's granddaughter.”
“I have no remorse targeting her; she brought this on herself simply by being born into that family.”
Drawing on Buddhist reincarnation terminology (tou tai), this line reflects the historical mindset of collective familial accountability where innocent descendants suffer for their elders' deeds.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
can only blame; has only ... to blame
Used to pin unavoidable fault or responsibility onto someone or something, often dismissing external sympathy.
reincarnated into the wrong family/womb; born under an unlucky star
A fatalistic colloquial idiom referring to suffering misfortune purely because of one's birth or pedigree.