At the end of the year, Pa took a long leave because his boss forced him to—he had too many unused leave days.

Meanwhile, Sis and I were on school break.

We were all lounging around like couch potatoes, except for Ma. She was constantly on the move—cleaning, tidying, scrubbing—just watching her was enough to give us a headache.

Too lazy to get up but too hungry to ignore it, we kept calling out,

"Food!"

"Food!"

"FOOD!"

Eventually, Ma couldn't take it anymore.

She appeared behind us... wearing a demon mask.

Ma (menacingly): "Hungry, huh?"

Before we could react, she raised her hammer, swung it down, and shouted—

"Then eat this!"

That day, we all got char siu bao on our heads.

From that moment on, we learned the truth:

Ma wasn't just our mother.

She was a demon summoner. 👹