Completely unhinged writing. Sometimes I want to curse manga writers with a disease that makes you go outside and experience ordinary human interactions for a few years. There are no characters in this manga that act like real human beings. Everyone is a mashup of tropes stuffed into a human shape. It's beyond simulacrum: we're like 3 levels of abstraction from someone who ever talked to a person.
"Curse the writers so they'd have to go outside and experience real people"
Is such a good way to put it, lol. Dunno wtf is going on with the author, but all of that melodrama is so bloody unnecessary and beyond contrived.
Sure, the otherworld has magic spells and whatever.
But Earth? Yeah that gets 0 suspension of disbelief...
The worst thing about this chapter is that the dad ended up in prison. Out of everything, that's so much more pointlessly cynical then everything else.
It's a real shame it has to go like this, this is a fun enough story, without the Chinese melodrama.