Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

Chapter 169 Is Saving Someone A Mistake?

The rescue boats lit up the water in the night, searching and scooping as time passed.

The middle–aged lady, now restrained, continued to shriek, “My daughter… my daughter…”

Yet after half an hour searching, nothing seemed to come up. Someone said that the girl may have been dragged under the current, and had sunk to the bottom of the river.

Either way, there was no way she was still alive…

“Ugh, if that lady hadn’t meddled just now… her daughter might have been found…”

“Alright, stop talking about it. She just lost her daughter, that’s a pretty big deal…”

The middle-aged woman’s chest ached as she listened.

No, how could it have been her fault?

She had just been anxious. Any mother would have done the same in a situation like this.

She hadn’t asked for Blake to save her, either. Why hadn’t he saved her daughter, and gone back for her instead!

The woman was overcome with remorse and guilt she could barely breathe, running to Blake and beginning to hit and kick at him:

“Why didn’t you save my daughter first! Why did you rescue a dried-up corpse! Why did you save me!”

“You’re evil, you should be dead! My daughter’s only sixteen, but you didn’t save her! You should be dead!”

The middle-aged lady shrieked loudly, yelling bloody murder at Blake.

Lilly clenched her fists. “Unreasonable! Unreasonable! You’re being absolutely ridiculous!”

Her father was far from deserving to be dead!

Lilly did not get it. Her father had tried so hard to save everyone, why was it his fault now?

Blake pushed Lilly behind him gently, his expression cold.

He could understand the pain of losing one’s daughter— come to think of it, he would be just as overwhelmed if his dear Lilly was gone.

But understanding was one thing. That didn’t mean he was going to be blamed for it.

Blake grabbed the woman’s palm, outstretched and ready to slap Lilly. He shoved her away. “I won’t blame you for this, seeing as your daughter’s nowhere to be found.”

The woman refused to back down still. The man that had helped Bettany look after Lilly just now shouted, “Are you done making a scene?”

“Did he not go down to try saving everyone? Did he not run into trouble on the water as well?”

life for your daughter’s! Is your daughter’s life

woman bit her lip. So what if it

her

beg him though?” The woman had seemingly lost it, shouting such

else did not

up, “It’s truly your daughter’s demise to have a mother like you! No wonder she offed

Who says that? He jumped in to save your daughter, and you’re still saying all

already gone, and you’re speaking of her like this! Did he save her? No, he didn’t! You’re all evil, saying

her arms as she spoke, trying to hit the

Lilly’s shoulder, squawking, “You evil woman, fall on that

air, the woman really lost her footing and slipped and fell to the

the ground hard, putting her in a kneeling position to the person

were

was terrified at the sight, scrambling

scooped Lilly up. “Let’s

had finished recording his statement, and he

point in staying

glance at the

had been

in

were

in the water, they had been

he was ashore, they were wide open and staring in front of

And now…

pupils had somehow

Blake was speechless

asked, “Dad, what’s

“Where’s your

back underground. Said that there was someone coming for an

anything more. He pushed

asked anxiously, “Are you

much emotion, only

in

by the riverbank when everyone was crowding by the shore, and could see that Blake had been struggling in the water

wrung his T-shirt out. “The water

rash next time! It’s so late in the night, how terrifying! You can’t see anything, what if you had run into something

Blake was speechless.

to branches, or rocks in the

of the thing that had grabbed his ankles just

his firm,

just a purple-green handprint on

the