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.

so chaotic that the mother in law would even chase the daughter in law around the house with a knife, but the daughter

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 walls to play truant at internet cafes, and all his results were terrible. I was

stool at the 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,

it was now, with

where all the neighbors saw

of them telling her to just quit her job and look after her

more and more self-righteous, demanding that my wife quit her job or she would block the door everyday.”

course my wife

she with was tired, and just

that he did not understand her side of things. The foolish ghost felt as

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

making that much at work but still going out, so she must be having an affair with

of them

harem spirit hurried to ask, “Well,

“Who else? My mom’s old, and my wife’s young. Even if 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.”

a divorce. I couldn’t take it anymore, and fought.

even told my mother in her face that it was. wrong

anyway? I’d hide every single time they fought about that dumb stuff, not wanting to care

had been wrong. She sat by the front door crying for days, not relenting even after he comforted and apologized to her.

refused to come home, not picking up the phone for days and neglecting her

the internet cafe. This drove a wedge between the both of them as well, and

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

she threaten to off herself- she even went out to get some

of pouring a bit of

no hobbies or interests, but she loved drinking soda. My wife was hell bent on getting a divorce then. I was

hardly believe it. “So you just tried

was just angry then, but

and mother’s relationship, his son was not listening to him, his job

ghost truly believed that everything would be solved if his mother

harem spirit did not

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

and his mother were not