Spoiled by Eight Uncles

The harem spirit did not know what to say. “Did you still speak up for your mom then?”

The foolish ghost looked nothing but regretful. “No, this time I told my mom off. I told her that she wasn’t doing anything at home, and the kid didn’t need taking care of anymore now that he was in school. How busy could she get?”

That was true, wasn’t it? She’d said exactly that when her daughter-in-law stayed at home as well.

The foolish ghost thought- his wife had even looked after the baby when she was at home. Now, his mother hardly needed to do anything at all. The clothes were washed by the washing machine, she only had to cook lunch for herself- even dinner was settled by his wife.

Still, his mother complained that she was tired.

When her daughter-in-law stayed at home, she would complain that she was not earning any money and only spending it.

Now that her daughter-in-law had gone back to work, she was complaining that she wasn’t doing any chores and leaving them all to a poor old woman to do.

Which resulted in his mother exploding, hurling dishes and bowls around.

“My mother kicked up a fuss, threatening to jump off our balcony saying that no one cared about her after my dad died. Her son was abandoning his mother after getting a wife, accusing his poor mother of not doing anything when she was breaking her back.”

She would do this over and over again, causing the house to know no peace.

The harem spirit said, “Your mother really is making a fuss out of nothing!”

The foolish ghost sighed. “Yes, but she’s old. What was I supposed to tell her? So I told my wife to apologize to my mother.”

The harem spirit:

The weakling spirit:….

The unlucky ghost: You really are foolish, handling things so terribly!

The foolish ghost said, “Well, what was I supposed to do? One was my mother and another was my wife, I was going to explode from the stress! I really don’t even know why they fought all day, had they ever considered how I felt?”

“Hadn’t I just done everything for our family? Was I supposed to just abandon my mother? It would have been fine if everyone just sucked it up.”

Every family had their own mother and daughter-in-law shenanigans.

that the mother in law would even chase the daughter in law around the house with a

so bloody tired. Then my son finally went to school, but wasn’t a good

her daughter-in-law that she made for a terrible mother and

then was not what it

lived in self-built buildings where all the neighbors saw and chatted with each other everyday.

barrage of complaints from their neighbors, all of them telling her to just quit her job and look after her

more self-righteous, demanding that my wife quit her job or she would block the

my wife didn’t

her to just not go to work since she would come home everyday complaining that she with was tired, and just stay at home to make sure our son studied well! What was wrong

said that he did not understand her side of things. The foolish ghost felt as if he was going crazy. How was he not caring enough?

grew all the more smug after this, going from cursing at the front door

much at work but still going

them finally fought

“Well, whose

if my mother was in the wrong, it wasn’t fair for her to be hit

mad and asked for a divorce. I couldn’t take it anymore, and fought. with her

it. I never yelled at her, and even told my mother

was there to fight. about anyway? I’d hide every single time they fought about that dumb stuff,

mother threw a huge tantrum after he told her that she had been wrong. She sat by the front door crying for days, not relenting

the phone for days and neglecting her son. He went looking for her,

the internet cafe. This drove a wedge between the

She’d slap her thighs for hours, yelling things. like, “I might as well be dead!”, or, “You’ve all abandoned me!”, or, “My daughter-in-law’s said that this wouldn’t happen to their family if I wasn’t around to screw things over”, and sobbing that she wanted to die.”

off herself- she even went out to get some pesticide, pretending to drink it the second

made the rash decision of pouring a bit of the

hell bent on getting a divorce then. I was sick of my mother. My company was laying off staff too.

believe it. “So you just tried to

reluctantly. “I was just angry then,

his son was

that everything would

harem spirit did not know

they got old, but did not know that what truly mattered was finding a good, sensible family.

obvious that the foolish ghost and his mother were not sensible