It’s the perfect blend of sweetness and innocent match-making.
My Mom’s a Superstar is a baihe manhua that follows Youzi, a little girl whose mother is a prolific actress in the film industry. After her parents’ divorce, Youzi discovers fan videos online shipping her mother with other actresses, and with all the innocence of a young child, decides that she can make her mom happy again by finding her a new love.
But Youzi won’t settle for just anyone. No, she has someone in mind: Her favorite aunt, Auntie Ren, a popular singer who’s just returned from overseas and happens to be one of her mom’s oldest friends from college.
My Mom’s a Superstar is one of those stories you could convince people to read based on the manhua panels alone. I adore writer and illustrator Shi Yi Er’s style. Her art is characterized by these simple and elegant strokes paired with comforting pastel colors that make the scenes pop with life and energy.

The character designs are also so striking that I don’t think words can do them justice. I’ll just leave it at this: Every time Youji and Ren Wei are in a scene together, they’re one of those pairings you can justify by aesthetics alone.
But the art style also serves an important purpose when it comes to the story itself in that it establishes the tone of the manhua. Like its art style, My Mom’s a Superstar is a light and wholesome adventure, and despite the premise hinging on a divorce, the narrative never dwells on negativity for too long.
This isn’t to say that these moments aren’t given the proper weight they deserve when they do come up, but My Mom’s a Superstar is simply much more interested in showing its main leads overcoming their past struggles and striving towards a happier future—and I think it’s better for it.

After all, the most brilliant narrative choice in My Mom’s a Superstar is that we’re seeing its world through the eyes of a child character.
Youzi might not understand many of the standards set by the adult world, but this also means that she can willfully follow her child’s intuition in a way that adults can’t. If Auntie Ren always makes her mom happy, then why doesn’t she live with them all the time?
If you’re looking to read My Mom’s a Superstar (which you definitely should!), the English fan translation is currently being done by the talented team at Zephyr Scans, and you can find their fan translation of the manhua here.
If you can read Chinese (or if you just want to support the creator), you can follow Shi Yi Er on her official Weibo account, where she posts the manhua and all of its updates completely for free under the SuperTopic #我的妈妈是大明星#.
Without spoiling too much, all I’ll say is that now is an especially good time to catch up on My Mom’s a Superstar because *developments are happening.*
I really can’t recommend this manhua enough.

