Fuck came back to this and I remember no one and nothing.
oh good i'm not the only one finding it hard to follow
also maybe it's just me, but the slow pacing for this series is a bit annoying. chapters are so short that it doesn't really feel like anything happens. maybe that's just because i find it hard to follow, but it doesn't feel like anything actually happens
I enjoy piecing the story together, it's a bit like a puzzle, with the picture becoming clearer with each piece you fit into place. If it helps:
Each chapter shares a little tidbit about Youzi, (the daughter,) Youji, (the mom/actress/superstar,) and/or Ren, (the singer,) with occasional snippets by the other supporting characters. The short chapters also make it pretty easy to review, but basically, what we know so far is that when Youzi was small, she met Ren because Ren was playing the song her mom sings to her. This led to Ren and Youji reconnecting after years apart, and Youzi picked up on their chemistry and started shipping it. 10 years have passed, and Youzi is now at that age where she's getting more proactive and she's actively trying to set her moms up with each other. She schemes with her friend to hatch plots to get Ren and Youji to interact.
The story pops back and forth between 10 years ago, around when Youzi and Ren first met, and the "present," where Youzi has sussed out that Mom is into women and is actively trying to set them up instead of passively shipping them like she did before. Youzi thinks her mom is into Auntie Chen, partly because of misunderstandings, but Youji x Ren is her OTP. And it seems like there's definitely history there; Youji has kept one of Ren's show tickets from before she was big, as a treasured keepsake. This might be when she met Ren, or first heard her sing, or maybe just her first show or something, it's still a little vague. Youji is taking singing and piano lessons from Ren, partly to create opportunities for the moms to interact. Her friend's mom is apparently Auntie Chen's sister, Director Chen, who is apparently aware of the girl's schemes and seems to have put her thumb on the scale at least once?
Welp, this comment needs to keep on going so that it'll refresh the series for me when it comes back