Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

The old man opened his mouth, preparing to insist that the Crawfords hit him.

Yet upon speaking, he found himself telling the truth. “It was my fault. I was going too fast on my motorcycle…”

“I’m old, you know… I… I saw the car coming and couldn’t react in time, so I hit it…”

The words left his children in shock!

His oldest daughter hopped to her feet, fuming. “Dad, what are you going on about?”

The oldest son was frustrated as well. “Don’t be scared of them, they’re trying to trap you into giving them an answer they want!”

The second son, who was the guy in the gray T-shirt from the start, said, “Dad, your mind’s still foggy, isn’t it? They parked the car by the side of the road, how was it your fault?”

The children piped up one after the older, blaming their father for saying the wrong thing.

The old man opened his mouth wanting to say something, but ended up keeping silent.

He could not do anything amidst his children’s frustration. He was a patient who had just come out of a surgery, but could only lay there with trembling lips as his children berated him.

Helpless and pitiful.

Lilly stared at the sight before her in a daze. Had she done the right thing?

The truth amulet had, indeed, gotten the old man to tell the truth.

But because he had told the truth, he had ended up getting yelled at by his children— which mean Lilly was to blame for this.

She had thought that she had been doing the right thing, but that didn’t seem to be completely the case.

Blake carried her into his arms. “I know what you’re thinking about.”

it easy for them to blame themselves

sometimes, what’s done is done and you shouldn’t look

to think too much about whether you were right or wrong. Don’t overcrowd that little

about what others think of you, as long as you know

a doormat, letting others step all

was no way you could please everyone

was no point in thinking about

to it!

long as your conscience was at peace about

the first to leave, with

arrived. A group of medical professionals in lab coats

a matter of seconds, before

were not going to stay here and keep listening to the Reed children, all of

up to them at once.

admitted himself that

had just

didn’t know what was going on

way they were going to let the

of course, a few people were no match for the powerful

a matter of seconds, all of the Crawfords

could. The police officers came to hold them down, and they shouted that

blatantly refusing to back down, even when they were clearly

insisting they were telling the truth and they had been wronged, passers-by

shaking with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to

the Reed children, “We’re just acting by the law. You

who didn’t know the truth, those words

in the ward and their respective

That’s too much, they’re