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

sometimes, what’s done is done

you were right or

think of you, as long as

would make you a doormat, letting others step all

way you could

no point in thinking

to

as your conscience was at peace

was the first to leave,

lab coats and scrubs came in pushing

matter of

listening to the

saw this, and rushed up to them at once. They blocked

father had admitted

that their old man had just finished surgery, and his mind

know what was going

were going to let the Crawfords

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

of seconds, all of the

officers came

one was blatantly refusing to back down, even when they were

insisting they were telling the truth and they had been wronged, passers-by would just

the old man shaking with teary eyes on his bed, wanting to wipe his tears but being unable

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

know the truth, those words sounded

in the ward and their respective family

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