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 them to blame themselves when they

done is done and you shouldn’t

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

about what others think of you, as long as you know you’re being a

would make you a doormat, letting others step all over

you could please

there was no point in thinking about

made a choice, so you should stick to it! What could other people do about

as your conscience was

to leave, with

professionals in lab coats and scrubs came in pushing

in a matter of seconds, before

Crawfords were not going to stay here and keep listening to the Reed

to them at once. They blocked the door, refusing to let

admitted himself that he

old man had just

know what was going on

was no way they were going to let the

people were no match for the powerful

matter of seconds, all of the Crawfords were

they could. The police officers came to hold them down, and they shouted that the police force was protecting

refusing to back down, even when they were clearly in

who truly believed they were right kicked up a fuss insisting they were

man shaking with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to wipe his

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

truth, those

and their respective family

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