Do you know that lotus lanterns pray for a child?
A lotus lamp can be made by cutting the skin and flesh of a woman into lotus petals, using the bones as candles and the blood as oil.
As long as you eat lotus petals and drink lantern oil, your next child will be a son.
I am the third lotus lantern made by my mother, and the first two were made by my sister.
On the mother's day, the flower petals are eclipsed, the lamp oil is drunk, and the lotus lamp is worshiped as a miracle.
But the day my mother got pregnant, I laughed.
Because my mother's belly is never a younger brother.
