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 somehow worth more than

her lip. So what if

point was that her daughter was gone

him though?” The woman had seemingly lost

not know what

up, “It’s truly your daughter’s demise to have a mother

to save your daughter, and you’re still

are you talking about! My daughter’s already gone,

flailed her arms as she spoke, trying to

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

words rang through the air, the woman really lost her

head hit the ground hard, putting her in a kneeling position to

were rendered speechless by

at the sight, scrambling

scooped Lilly

recording his statement, and he had also

point in

Blake cast one last glance at the corpse

had been blown

in

man’s pupils were

in the water, they

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

And now…

pupils had somehow

Blake was speechless

asked, “Dad, what’s

“Where’s your

that there was someone

did not say anything more. He pushed

anxiously,

show much emotion, only mumbling, “I’m

in the water

had been on the walkway by the riverbank when everyone was crowding by the shore, and could see that

“The water weeds were

so late in the night, how terrifying! You can’t see anything, what

Blake was speechless.

to branches, or rocks in

the thing that had grabbed his

off his soaked clothes to reveal his firm, broad

just a purple-green handprint

Blake touched the