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.

law around the house with a knife, but the daughter in

I’d comfort my wife, then I’d have to comfort my mother. I was so bloody tired. Then my son finally went to school, but wasn’t a good student. He learned to climb over his school

main door of the family house yelling at her daughter-in-law that she made for a terrible mother and daughter-in-law, leaving the house early and coming back late, prioritizing

not what it was now, with

the neighbors saw

them telling her to just quit her

more and more self-righteous, demanding that my wife quit her

course my wife didn’t want that…”

she with was tired, and just stay

felt as if he was going crazy. How was he not caring enough? Didn’t he

after this, going from cursing at the front door to yanking

she wasn’t even making that much at work but still going out, so

the two of them finally fought one day…”

harem spirit hurried to ask, “Well, whose side were you on?”

my mother was in the wrong, it wasn’t fair for her to be hit by someone stronger than her. Of course I pulled my wife away.”

divorce. I couldn’t take it anymore,

yelled at her, and even told my mother in her face that it was. wrong to attack her!”

the time, what even was there to fight. about anyway? I’d hide every

her that she had been wrong. She sat by the front door crying for days, not relenting even after

to come home, not picking up the phone for days and neglecting her son. He went

beating at the internet cafe. This drove

relent for days, crying at the front door while the neighbors watched on. 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”,

to get some pesticide, pretending to drink it the second the

the rash decision of pouring a bit of the pesticide into

she loved drinking soda. My wife was hell bent on getting a divorce then. I was sick of my mother. My company was laying off staff too. My life

hardly believe it. “So

nodded reluctantly. “I was just angry

son was not listening to him, his job was laying

believed that everything would be solved if his mother died.

harem spirit did not

age before they got old, but did not know that what truly mattered was finding a

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