我上辈子好事是不是做太多了
“What did I do to deserve”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我 上辈子好事是不是做太多了
“What did I do to deserve”
养了你们这帮玩意
“raising you brats?”
“I must be paying for some terrible curse to end up burdened with ungrateful brats like you.”
Rooted in Buddhist concepts of karma, invoking 'past life deeds' (上辈子) is a pervasive cultural trope used either for gratitude or, as here, caustic irony when facing unfilial behavior.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
done too many good deeds in a past life
Almost universally used ironically in spoken Chinese to complain about current terrible luck or disappointing relatives.
did I do too much...
A rhetorical framing used to deliver sarcastic self-deprecation or lamentation.
Completes the predicate clause indicating an excessive condition.