Since my sister-in-law drank that bowl of stuff, her appetite gradually increased.

She can eat several bowls of rice, and she especially craves meat.

Only my elder brother can eat meat at home, but this time my mother gave all the meat to my sister-in-law.

My sister-in-law didn't hesitate, she picked up the meat and gobbled it up.

I have never seen my sister-in-law eat like this before. It feels terrifying, as if she hasn't eaten before, just like the two pigs in the pigsty.

But my mother and my brother were laughing happily.

My mother stared at my sister-in-law's belly and served her vegetables. "The next child will definitely be a boy, a chubby little boy!"

I tried to pick up a piece of meat and my mother fiercely struck my chopsticks a few times.

I felt pain and quickly withdrew.

My mother's face changed immediately, and she scowled, "Is this for you to eat? You wretched thing, your sister-in-law is eating for a baby boy!"

My brother glared at me several times.

Since the last argument between my sister-in-law and my mother, I haven't seen her speak again.

She just sits there, lifeless, with empty eyes, like a paper person who doesn't move at all!

The most she does in a day is eat meat.

A few times I saw my sister-in-law staring straight at the cured meat hanging on the ceiling beam. When the cured meat was finished, she targeted the chicken my mother raised. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I saw my sister-in-law standing in front of the pigsty, eagerly looking at the pigs inside.

I was afraid she would grab raw meat and start eating any second!

She ate meat continuously for a month.

But strangely, my sister-in-law became even thinner than before.

There was hardly any flesh on her face, her cheekbones supporting it, her eyes deeply sunken, and her arms so thin that there was barely any meat on them.

But she kept eating meat non-stop.

The only change was that her belly became bigger.

And it was disproportionately large, as if it could explode at any moment.

It seemed that all the meat she had eaten in the past month, along with her own lost weight, had been piled up in her belly.

My mother said my sister-in-law was pregnant, and this time it must be a boy!

I didn't dare touch my sister-in-law's belly, afraid that she would collapse if I did. She was too thin, sometimes unable to stand on her own, only able to lie in bed and wait for my mother and my brother to feed her.

She handed me the clothes she changed out of to wash.

For some reason, her clothes always had a strange smell, not sweat or the odor of wearing them for too long, but a familiar smell.

One day, when I went to the paper shop, I smelled the same scent coming from the paper person.

Exactly the same as the strange smell on my sister-in-law's clothes!

The last time the baby was turned into a paper person, it had the same smell!

I instinctively felt afraid and didn't dare to see my sister-in-law.

My mother said that my sister-in-law was about to give birth in the next few days, and there were even more clothes to change out of. Sometimes she could change several pieces in a day, and the strange smell became stronger and stronger.

My sister-in-law has undergone a particularly significant change recently. Her skin has become increasingly pale, her originally dark and yellowish skin turning paper-white. Her lips have become even redder, and two patches of blush have appeared on her pale face.

She looks eerie and terrifying!

Completely motionless.

Like what?

Like the paper people in the paper shop!+

Even more like the baby that was turned into a paper person last time!