And it was only then that Kai-ming realized that it was the nightmare demon of her growing-up years-maternal authority-that held them together spiritually even as they fragmented spatially.
李開敏這才了解，過去在她成長過程中的夢魘──「媽媽的威權」，其實正是她們家不斷向外伸展的家庭同心圓圓心。