Another break up facilitated by interfering parents and the cultural need to obey parents and be the best person you can before them and more parents pushing their children away from the people they love and buying into the mistakes of the past.
We've got one boy who just wants to love but his family wants him to be their heir, a teacher who just wants him to be happy and happy means he obeys his mother and another young man who loves the town scapegoat and then the town scapegoat himself who is exactly as they say he is because he's never had a choice.
And we've got two moms breaking them up because they want a different future for their sons than what they see developing.
Also, this is a rare coming out scene in Vietnamese BL and I love that it's specifically about who he loves, being gay and his mother going 'but you dated a girl!' and his response and then it's about responsibility and what it means and the extreme definition that we see so often in these families.
I actually love that he rebels against the idea that being responsible means he has to marry a woman because it would be wrong. But also the idea that he has to carry on the family and so he can't be gay, he can't act on who he loves, he can't be himself... it's agony to watch them talk about it.
This really is about family love and culture and a lot about what it means to be responsible and a good son and a good child and what it means for a parent to love them and what it means to look to the future and to fall in love and it's just... oh, it's so much.
