I was upset until the wee hours last night, and my head had hurt all day today. I tried writing, but my progress had been painfully slow.
My mom nearly lit the kang stove again today...
I'd specifically told her last night not to light it tomorrow, but she forgot the moment she turned around. If I hadn't heard movement in the kitchen and gone to check, I wouldn't be sleeping tonight either...
Just because the rice cooker couldn't steam everything in one batch and used too much electricity, she insisted on heating the kang.
In the end, when I saw I really couldn't reason with her, I turned into a broken record and kept saying, "You lit it at noon yesterday, and I couldn't sleep until the middle of the night."
No matter what she said, I just kept saying, "Don't light it, don't light it," until she finally backed down. This was so hard on me!!