Meanwhile I can't tell if Hu Luoluo is being dense or just not realizing she liked Chilly too when younger, all I know is that this panel:
Makes me be like:
I don't think she was into Chilly - I don't think she was into
anyone, otherwise she wouldn't have been talking the way she was in the flashback that lead to that panel. A LuoLuo who's been hit by the hetero sexytimes interest would have been talking about specific boys/men there rather than throwing out such generic ideas, and a LuoLuo who's been hit by
any sexytimes interest, straight or gay, would definitely not talking about how nice it'd be if
she was a boy since then she could marry young-Chilly (whose name I can't recall, dammit) and hang out all the time. That's not playing ignorant, it's genuine innocence.
I'm not sure what she'd say
now, though - as I've said far too many times in the past, she's gotten hot and bothered by Song Li multiple times, and she seems to be at least somewhat aware of it, the real question is whether she's been keeping her thoughts about that really close to her chest, or whether she just hasn't noticed it.
I've bounced around a bit on this, but I'm coming down more and more on the side of Hu LuoLuo being a lot more canny than she seems - she seemed to have had an inkling about Chilly's true identity from the start, and now it feels like she's got a fairly good idea of what's going on with Song Li, even if she's being very careful not to actually
say anything about it. Right now it feels like she's consciously chosen to hold off on anything deeper, and instead is aiming to lay a new set of foundations under their relationship - not resetting everything back to the beginning, but putting in some pilings and setting up the rebar cage before the . . . um . . . concrete trucks come in . . . that metaphor seemed great when I started . . .
Ahem.
Yes, proper foundations rather than the weird shit they had at the start. And setting things up so that they can be
friends is the most basic part of that, which is perfectly illustrated by the drunken snack fest they just had.
Depending on what
actually happened last night, we may find that her carefully laid
rebar...er, foundation-laying plans are completely scuppered by the realisation that Song Li is actually just seriously
hot . . . Or we may not.