Who Is Laughing at My Mom

As the oldest unmarried young adult in my family, I had been suffering under the pressure to get married for years. Eventually, I simply gave up fighting it. My mom said she was so worried she could not sleep. So I drove two hundred kilometers overnight, got home at three in the morning, stood by her bed, and pried her eyelids open. My mom said everyone in the family was laughing at her because I refused to get married. The next second, I tagged everyone in the family group chat: [My mom says everyone is laughing at her because I won’t get married. I came to ask, who exactly is laughing at her? @everyone] My cousin was the first to start a message chain: [Your little cousin is not laughing at her.] Then came an orderly line of replies: [Auntie is not laughing at her.] [Uncle is not laughing at her.] [Second Cousin is not laughing at her.] [Dad is not laughing at her.] […]