The people always deem you the way they want you to be. We don't have control over how someone thinks about us or through which filters they are looking at us. Everyone has the entitlement to think but no one has the right to judge.
But we forget this very easily. We love to judge everything around us. It's like judging will bring the feeling of sanctimonious to us. And the more someone tries to please us, the more we have the cause to believe that he's faking it.
But our human nature doesn't allow us to stop trying. Therefore, we keep trying to impress the people around us.
Mother Ye became that person for Xu Mey. She was trying to impress her with all her might and Mother Ye was holding on to her prejudice against her for some unknown reason.
The food that Xu Mey spent 4 hours to make, when Jun asked his mother, "Mom, how's the food? It's delicious right?"
She replied with a dry, "Hmm..." with a nod and that was done unwillingly.