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.”

easy for them to blame themselves when

is done

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

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

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

way you could please everyone

was no point in

should stick to it! What

long as your conscience was

the first to leave, with

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 looked

in a matter of seconds, before pushing him out

going to stay here and keep listening to the

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

their father had admitted himself that he had

had just

know what was going

no way they were going to let the

a few people were no match for the powerful

matter of seconds, all of the

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

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

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

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

blind eye to this. They left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re

the truth, those

and their respective family members piped

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