*A collection of short stories for sneaking a break, featuring a few heartwarming and amusing tales. Probably only four chapters, each a standalone story.
[Chapter One: Half a Sister]
On the seventh day after her death, my sister's upper body came home. Her lower body had already been cremated, and her ashes sat in a porcelain jar on Mom's bedside table.
[Chapter Two: Blood Brawl Master]
When Chen Wen was in his third year of middle school, he found a mermaid in the creek on his way home from school. More precisely, it was a fish with a human head.
[Chapter Three: Sea God]
Twenty years ago, Grandma went missing while fishing at sea. Twenty years later, Wang Shan encountered a whale out on the water.
"Your grandma became the sea god!"
[Chapter Four: Crop Circles]
Liu Ying was seventy-eight that year, tending a golden field of wheat. Then one day, a group of aliens showed up and insisted on drawing circles in her crops.
Theme: Even death cannot separate us.
