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

bit her lip.

was that her daughter

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

not know

daughter’s demise to have a mother like you! No wonder

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

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

arms as she spoke, trying to hit the

not having any of that. She hid in Lilly’s shoulder, squawking,

woman really lost her footing and slipped and fell to the

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

and Blake were rendered speechless

sight, scrambling to

Lilly up.

had finished recording his statement, and

point in staying

glance at the corpse lying

tarp covering his face had been blown open, exposing his bloated, pale

heart lurched in fear

were

the water,

were wide open and

And now…

had somehow turned

Blake was speechless

“Dad,

asked, “Where’s

“He’s back underground. Said that there was someone coming for

say anything more. He pushed Bettany along, returning

asked anxiously,

much emotion, only mumbling,

“Why were you struggling in the

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

T-shirt out. “The

in the night, how terrifying!

Blake was speechless.

branches, or rocks

that had grabbed his ankles

off his soaked clothes to reveal his firm, broad chest. He checked himself for wounds in the

just a purple-green handprint

Blake touched the