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Oops, parents were born in the wrong Asian country.
Do not go to the living room, its more like a dying room. The WeChat stuff is torture. Also mom has some weird boring ass drama show always playing on the phone
I'm just gonna blast English music with a bluetooth speaker lol and pretend everything is normal. xD
My first experience with people playing stuff on speaker was on a train from Beijing to Xi'an. I kept looking around to see who would ask the woman to please silence her show, but it never happened...
Helps to learn Mandarin: If you are a white person, you can just ask politely with a firm voice and I'm sure 99% of the time people would just comply to "save face" in front of "outsiders"
Something like:
「［先生/女士］，请不要在公交车上播放这么大声的［音乐/视频］。这很没礼貌，不文明。」
([Sir/Ma'am], please do play such loud [music/video] on public transit. This is very impolite, uncivil.)
Like 99% of the time it WILL work if you have white face.
Disclaimer: I'm not white so I cannot test this. I also never witnessed a white person in IRL try this, only heard stories of white people trying it and it somehow just works.