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How to Be a Mother-in-Law in This Day and Age?

share time: 2025-12-17 06:02:58

Retired teacher Lin Xiaomei, who’d been a "virtuous wife and good mother" for 30 years, hits a wall the moment she becomes a mother-in-law—her post-95 daughter-in-law Su Xiaoman is a self-media blogger who dares to make videos criticizing "traditional mothers-in-law". She pours Lin’s angelica soup into the trash, messes up the closet Lin secretly organized, and even moves back to her parents’ home because Lin gave away her cat. Squatting downstairs, Lin watches Xiaoman’s video: with red eyes, Xiaoman says, "I’m not afraid of my mother-in-law—I’m afraid of becoming someone who ‘lives for others’ like her." Suddenly, Lin remembers hating her own mother’s control when she was young. So she secretly learns to make iced Americanos, brings the cat back and hides it on the balcony, and even helps Xiaoman shoot a video called "Mother-in-Law Learns to Make Internet-Famous Coffee"—turns out, the "homework" for mothers-in-law today is to learn: "Love your daughter-in-law like a daughter, but more importantly, understand her as a person."

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