short series

Spring Festival Counterattack: Taming the Toxic Relatives

share time: 2026-03-08 06:04:47

Lin Xiaoman, a fresh graduate stuck in 996, dreads every Spring Festival—it’s her "disaster day"! Her aunt nags her to marry, Uncle Li pries into her salary, and her cousin steals the gold jewelry she bought for grandma… These toxic relatives’ antics push her to the edge. This year, she’s prepared "counterattack ammo": the health products her aunt obsesses over are a scam, her cousin’s three-year NEET secret, Uncle Li’s factory owes workers three months’ wages… But just as she’s about to confront them with evidence, grandma pulls out her primary school essay *My New Year Wish*: "I hope all relatives like me, and we can have a warm New Year’s Eve dinner together." It turns out grandma knew everything—behind those harsh words, there’s the aunt’s panic over her loneliness, the cousin’s urgency to buy insulin for grandma, and even Uncle Li, who loves to show off, once slipped pocket money into her bag secretly. Xiaoman suddenly realizes: the real "counterattack" is never about winning—it’s learning to hold her family’s clumsy love with tenderness.

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