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

done is done and you

about whether you were right

think of you, as long as you know you’re being a

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

way you could please everyone

point in thinking

made a choice, so you should stick to it! What could

long as your conscience was

was the first to leave, with Lilly

lab coats and scrubs came in pushing a brand-new stretcher. For some reason,

in a matter of seconds, before

and keep listening to the Reed children, all

them at once. They blocked the door, refusing to

their father had admitted himself that he

that their old man had just

didn’t know what was going on

they were going to let the Crawfords

of course, a few people were no match for the powerful force the

a matter of seconds, all

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

was blatantly refusing to back down,

who truly believed they were right kicked up a fuss insisting they were telling the truth and they had been

shaking with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to wipe

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

truth, those words sounded like

their respective family members piped

this? That’s too much, they’re