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

is done and

think too much about whether you were right

even less use caring about what others think of you, as long as you know you’re being

you a doormat,

no way you could please everyone

point in

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

conscience was at

first to leave, with Lilly

also arrived. A group of medical professionals in lab coats

in a matter of

to stay here and keep listening to the

to them at

if their father had admitted himself

had just finished surgery, and his mind was

what was going on

no way they were going to

were no match for the

seconds, all of

then stooped to kicking up as 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,

they were right kicked up a fuss insisting they were telling the truth and they had been wronged, passers-by would just

his bed, wanting to wipe his tears but being unable

officers and policemen turned a blind eye to this. They left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re

didn’t know the truth, those

ward and their respective family

too much, they’re abusing