Xiao Guo's mild-mannered uncle

[solo]

I was looking at this in the subs file this morning and it cracked me up.









For context, by then Lao Chu's face has been plastered all over the media.

So I imagine that in the real world, the dialogue would read more like 'Zhao Yunlan is harbouring a murderer from Dixing and WHAT THE FUCK were you thinking bringing him to us on Reunion Night are you CRAZY?? I touched his creepy doll! I knew that look he gave me wasn't right! Xiao Guo, you're grounded forever!!!

Comments

[teaotter]

Personally, I see this more as how to talk with your neuro-atypical nephew rather than specifically your gay one, but I agree that either reading is valid.

I mean, a direct attack on the boyfriend (or anyone, really) will just get sputtering and protestations. But xiao-Guo is a good thinker if you give him the space to be.

[solo]

To me this is really not about the gay thing but about the hanging-with-a-murderer thing. Which no matter what kind of nephew you have (okay, unless he's kind of shady too) , you might just ask if he's okay and is the murderer maybe coercing him or does he (nephew) know something uncle doesn't know. Not just 'random murderer here, come home'.