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

then I’d have to comfort my wife. 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

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

what it was now,

self-built buildings where all the neighbors saw

neighbors, all of them telling her to

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

wife

her to just not go to work since she would come home everyday complaining that she with was tired, and just

things. The foolish ghost felt as

the

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

the two of them finally fought

ask, “Well, whose side

my mother was in the wrong, it wasn’t fair for her to be hit by someone stronger than

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

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

mother all the time, what even was there to fight. about anyway? I’d hide every single time they fought about that dumb stuff, not wanting to care

she had been wrong. She sat by the front door crying for

phone for days and

an internet addiction, and he got so angry that he gave his son a beating at the internet cafe. This drove a wedge

was going to explode from the stress. My mom refused to 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”, and sobbing that

went out to get some pesticide, pretending

rash decision of pouring a bit of the pesticide into a small bottle

drinking soda. My wife was hell bent on getting a divorce then. I was sick of my

it. “So you just tried to kill your mother?”

reluctantly. “I was just angry

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

foolish ghost truly believed that everything

did not know

never truly equal. Women wanted to get married at a young age before they got old, but did not know that what truly mattered was finding a good, sensible

ghost and his mother were not sensible at