"Mom, there's flour on your eyelashes."
Huali Li stood on tiptoe to brush away the baking powder from the corner of her mother's eyes, just like every morning in the past weekends.
The gentle woman stirring the cake batter would never know that the slime creature that crawled out of the closet late last night had dissolved her real daughter in her stomach pouch.
The daughter was swallowed by the monster, and the monster was covered by the daughter——
Replaced! ! !
The reflection in the mirror cracked a jagged smile when no one was around, and in the steaming heat of the bathroom, she counted the number of scales swimming under the skin, which gradually exceeded the 206 bones that humans should have.
"Dad"
One night during a thunderstorm, she pressed her forehead against the glass of her father's weapons collection cabinet. The cold touch caused the corrosive fluid ducts disguised as tear ducts to temporarily go dormant.
"If one day you notice that my eyes have become compound eyes..."
"Please be sure... Kill me"
Intention: unchanging family love