Little Meteor Chapter 38

Chapter 38 “Does it hurt?” When Shen Mu returned home that evening, his mother had prepared a large table of dishes, as usual. It was a common phenomenon in East Asian families: no matter how fiercely parents and children argued, they still had to come home for dinner. The deepest fissures seemed to be temporarily stitched up by those four words—coming home for dinner—suspending all sharp conflicts and collectively completing a superficial performance called "Harmony in the Family Brings…