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

is done and you shouldn’t

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

others think of you, as long as

kind would make you a doormat, letting others step

you could please

no point in thinking

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

conscience was at peace

first to leave, with Lilly

of medical professionals in lab coats and scrubs came in pushing a brand-new stretcher. For some

matter

going to stay here and keep listening to

Reed children saw this, and rushed up to them at once. They blocked the door, refusing to

father had admitted himself

thought that their old man had just

what was going

they were going to

of course, a few people were no

all of the

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 was protecting the

easy to see when one was blatantly refusing to back down, even

they were telling the truth and they had been

with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to wipe his tears but being

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

people who didn’t know the truth, those words sounded like

in the ward and their respective family members piped

much, they’re abusing