Awful People Supporter

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"No. Go study. You want to do this for the rest of your life? No? Then go study. Oh you finished? Is it memorized? Can you say it backwards? Can you explain every bit of it to me? No? Go. Study." When she finds Meng Yao goofing off. However I think this inculcation of an insane work ethic is tempered by her asking him to tell her all about what he has learned in detail and asking interested questions and being very proud and happy to listen, and a "that's ok, you'll get it next time (which is why you must always be studying) attitude." Because her son is driven but he's not Jiang Cheng.

Superiority as a reaction to her situation. She IS different than the rest of them. She IS better. She does NOT belong here. Her son IS special and he WILL have a good life. This is a response to both the awful dehumanizing grind of being a brothel worker in an indentured servitude situation and in response to the other workers excluding her. It also makes the second problem worse.

She almost never actually allows herself to be mad but when she does she gets so mean. She could win the mean Olympics. Just the most cutting, spiteful, and deeply personal insults you have ever heard. Again this almost never happens, because she tries very hard to not be mad. But when it does. But it was never turned on Meng Yao.

Where Do We Think Meng Yao Learned That Loving People Means You Hide The Severity Of Your Situation From Them. Hmmmmmm. (Though again. He is 13 when she dies. So hiding the severity of things from him makes sense to a degree)

There's also a lot that's not even personal it's situational, and was her best choice in the situation probably. Like I'm sure she did lots of things that were very bad for herself in order to be able to keep her kid, and keep him in books. She doesn't seem to have provided any alternative to the compulsive people pleasing he was learning in the brothel. They definitely had a level of emotional codependency but if no one else would befriend or care about either one of them, idk that that's avoidable. He winds up caring for her when she's sick in ways a middle schooler shouldn't have to but again, I don't see how she could have avoided that with no money and no support system.