So what you're saying is there's still a chance that Tong Tong and Lin Luxi's moms are gonna get together

man i hope the rest of this manga isnt gonna be "luxi makes up with her past abusers instead of dumping their ungrateful asses in the dirt"

I'm kinda hoping Tongtong goes the fuck off on her. Not her mom, her mom's fine but the emotionally satisfying thing would be Tongtong loudly asserting "Lun Luxi is MINE, and if you actually cared about her even a fraction as much as I do you'd accept this most important aspect of her life!"

I think the mom is more upset that
1 she was lied to about this and her daughter couldn't trust her
2 the friend she thought she had was also lying to her and their own relationship was built on manipulating her .
I think she's more than likely gotten more accepting of her daughters queerness and is hurt shed hide it from her ( even though her daughter has no reason to trust her with it )
Clearly she was wrong about lin and tongtongs relationship effecting her hard work . I think she'll talk to tongtongs mom and come to a realization that she's no longer homophobic .

Such a heavy chapter, but I can't help but imagine the whiplash when they'll notice what the present was.

i love the drama
but the pacing is killing me
*looks at TGSWIIWAGAA*

LMAO the shade

I think the mom is more upset that
1 she was lied to about this and her daughter couldn't trust her
2 the friend she thought she had was also lying to her and their own relationship was built on manipulating her .
I think she's more than likely gotten more accepting of her daughters queerness and is hurt shed hide it from her ( even though her daughter has no reason to trust her with it )
Clearly she was wrong about lin and tongtongs relationship effecting her hard work . I think she'll talk to tongtongs mom and come to a realization that she's no longer homophobic .

Being lied to almost certainly the major part of what she's upset about.

Her past depictions were less abusive to me and more overworked and stressed, but while feeling like there was a reason for her to sacrifice that much. With her purpose gone so to speak and the years of her life never coming back, she has to figure out what to do with herself. She also has to live with the fallout of the social skills and network she didn't adequately developed. We know her marriage/romantic life didn't go well.

With the latest chapter, she took all this as a rejection: no one trusted her, no one appreciated her, and now that her daughter doesn't need her anymore her daughter is done with her. This will be a lot of motivation to come around on the gay stuff, especially when she sees her daughter doing better than she is (good grades, social network, etc in addition to a successful relationship). We also know Luxi does appreciate her, which is part of why this is hard for Luxi.

She really needs some time away from Luxi and to hear that she is appreciated. In the mean time, she has Tong Tong's mom to help her figure out what she enjoys and how to live more independently. Really fairly realistic without the mangaisms (the present, the phone calls, etc).

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Nah that mom was absolutely abusive, she threatened Luxi to force her to break up with Tongtong and repeatedly denied a core element of her daughter's identity, calling homosexuality a disease and unnatural and the result of bad influence. Luxi was 100% in the right to hide this part of herself from her mom, that's just rational self protection, and even in this moment when the mom finds out she's implicitly making yet another unreasonable toxic demand on Luxi by framing the situation as an exclusive choice between Tongtong or her mother. The problem is entirely in her and the shitty societal elements she's representing.

edit: worth drawing specific attention to one particular element: The thing Luxi's mom is reacting so badly to here is the mere presence of Tongtong. She didn't catch them making out this time, she freaked out over Tongtong answering her daughter's apartment door. She expected Luxi to cut Tongtong off and never see her again and that's obviously fucking dumb and she has nobody to blame but herself. Her initial ultimatum was for Luxi to choose between breaking up with her girlfriend or being sent away, and Luxi chose being sent away on a delayed, self-managed path: she waited to go away by her own volition to college, and kept her girlfriend. She has not actually lied to her mother or even contradicted her, she merely violated the spirit of her mother's demand, which was to magically become "normal". There's no excuse for Luxi's mom's behavior, no extenuating circumstances that make her worth sympathy in this moment. Her hard life as a single mother has nothing to do with her rank bigotry here. If nobody trust her that is because she is untrustworthy, and if her daughter is done with her that's nothing less than what she deserves. She has no paths forward from here except to fully surrender and beg forgiveness, or fuck off from her daughter's life forever like countless bigot parents before her.

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i just wanna say that I'm really loving all the different perspectives people are putting forward here, so please keep them coming!
(if i can rub together enough braincells, i might share my own perspectives (or trauma dump my own experience))