Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 62 Your Brain’s Rotted From Being Dead

When Ivan saw Lilly staring at him with large shining eyes, he immediately stiffened his spine and straightened up, pursing his lips slightly. “What now?”

Lilly counted busily on her fingers before exclaiming, “Wow! Ivan, this is the most number of words you’ve ever spoken! That’s so cool!” All along, she had been under the impression that he could only speak five words at a time!

Ivan just stared at her, lost for words. He thought she would compliment him for knowing so much…

Jonas smiled faintly, then shifted to a more comfortable position and propped his chin against his palm, watching the two little rascals. Children were children, after all, and they came up with the oddest observations.

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Once the ribbon-cutting ceremony finished, Lilly fell asleep because she had eaten too much.

While Jonas carried her carefully, Anthony came over and took off his dress jacket, draping it over her sleeping form. The two men slipped past the barrage of cameras everywhere on the red carpet, carefully shielding their precious little burden. Bidding Colton goodnight, they made their way to their car and departed.

Ivan stood at the entrance, quietly watching as the two Crawford brothers drove off.

“Let’s go, son!” Colton told him.

Ivan sighed and took a last look at the car vanishing in the distance. If he met Lilly again, he would give her two sweets. Two, because she liked eating them, and not three because he was afraid she might get cavities…

A short, chubby middle-aged man stood beside the Shaws’ car. With a smile, he bid Colton goodnight. This gentleman was very short, standing only around five feet four or so. The buttons of his dress jacket strained against his rotund beer belly; they looked as if they would pop off any moment.

This was Valentine Taylor, the CEO of Taylor Entertainment.

Valentine’s mother had given birth to two sets of twins, all boys. During her third pregnancy, she had hoped for a daughter and had named the child in her womb “Valentine” for luck.

However, the baby turned out to be a boy instead.

Mrs. Taylor had been so disappointed that she had not bothered to think of another name, so “Valentine” had stuck.

After sending off the Shaws and the Crawfords, the tension in Valentine’s shoulders eased considerably. “That little Crawford brat…” Something enigmatic flickered in his eyes for a moment. “She really is a little devil!”

mother had fallen ill with some bizarre sickness, and Valentine had heard the story of how Lilly had literally brought young Ivan Shaw back from

would have a chance to invite the

either. Whenever she visits, get the best pastry chef in Shercaster City to come over immediately and bake a cake for her on the spot. Just remember that the Little Miss can’t have anything too sweet, and she doesn’t like chocolate, but she loves cakes that have lots of fruits in them. She also

assistant stared at him blankly in confusion. Why would something like this need to be noted down in the

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being stared at. She turned and squinted, then realized that an old woman was standing in front of her. This old lady was dressed in

so startled that she woke

gave Pablo a shock, and he hurriedly asked, “What’s

sleep-filled eyes were still fearful. “Master, I saw an old

was startled. “What did she

as she described the old lady. “Her eyes were all sunken in and hollow; her cheeks too. Her eyes were

her before?” Pablo

shook her head.

hard. A woman with sunken eyes, hollow cheeks, and livor mortis under

because she had actually seen him in

of the dead were beginning to come in search of

face was very grave as he asked, “Tulip, have you dreamed about anything

her head, looking puzzled. “Master, what’s wrong?” Her master’s expression seemed very serious all of

okay?” Pablo told her. Looking conflicted, he asked, “Do you know why I came to find you back

still slightly blurry from sleep. Rubbing her eyes, she answered with a yawn, “Of course I do! Master, are you trying to test me? Mommy asked you to come…” Of course she still remembered what Pablo had

wing for a while, and that would be it. After that, he had discovered

As for today…

appeared under Lilly’s name. It read, “If she declares that someone will die,

like this only possible if one were the Ruler

mere coincidence that he had encountered the

remember the jar of souls I gave

plump wrist was a slender red cord with a tiny urn-shaped talisman hanging from it.