Dex-chan lover
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I think my main issue is that the message right now is one of hopelessness, like at some degree sure its saying you should keep trying to convince them until they accept, but more-so its saying keep begging, pleading, endlessly, grovel for decades and you still won't convince them but keep doing so. It's a message of hopelessness to make a better situation, a message to accept just outright suffering and hate. Right here the manhua isn't just saying "here's how life is", its saying "this is what you should do, this is what's best". If it was just describing how life was, then sure, it'd be pretty accurate, but its trying to impart a message at the same time that this situation should be accepted, and that if your gay you should just suffer, get into a het relationship, and submit fully to the society that hates you.This is a sad reality that not many can choose who they love. Not everyone is as fortunate.
If the last few chapters turn and paint Wanwan's words not as a message the story is saying but as a tragedy of succumbing to the pressures of society, then sure, that'd work. But right now, with the fact that she somehow magically convinced her friend to go plead to her parents, it doesn't seem like that's the case, and it's just being the opposite of aspirational. The issue isn't that it's depicting a sad reality that many face, but that it accepts that and doesn't try to push for change or hope.