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.”

making it easy for

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

whether you were right or wrong. Don’t overcrowd that little

caring about what others think of you,

you a doormat, letting

no way you could

there was no point in thinking about

you should stick to it! What

long as your conscience

to leave, with Lilly in

team had also arrived. A group of medical professionals in lab coats and scrubs came in pushing a brand-new stretcher. For some reason, they

matter of seconds, before pushing him out

listening to the Reed children, all of them leaving at

at once. They blocked the door, refusing

had admitted himself that he

old man had just finished surgery,

was going on

they were going to

people were no match for the powerful force the

matter of seconds, all of

could. The police officers came

was blatantly refusing to back down,

up a fuss insisting they were telling the truth and they had

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

a blind eye to this. They left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re just acting by the law. You can make a report if

didn’t know the truth, those words sounded

and their respective family members piped

this? That’s too much, they’re abusing their power!