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.”

vulnerable hearts, making it easy for them to blame themselves when they saw pitiful

done is done

about whether you were right or wrong. Don’t

caring about what others think of you, as

kind would make you a doormat, letting others step all over

you could please everyone at the

there was no point in thinking

a choice, so you should stick to it! What could other

long as your conscience

the first to leave, with Lilly in his

had also arrived. A group of medical professionals in lab coats and scrubs

patient’s bed in a matter of seconds,

stay here and keep listening to the Reed

to them at once. They blocked

had admitted

old man had just finished surgery, and his

know what was going

way they were going to let the Crawfords

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

matter of seconds, all of the Crawfords were

big of a fuss as they could. The police officers came to hold them down, and they shouted that the police force

when one was blatantly refusing to back down, even when they were clearly

if people who truly believed they were right kicked up a fuss insisting they were telling the truth and they had been wronged, passers-by

his bed, wanting to wipe his tears but being unable to move. How sad, how

left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re just acting by the law. You can make

people who didn’t know the truth,

ward and their

they’re abusing their power!