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.”

it easy for

is done and you shouldn’t look

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

use caring about what others think of you, as long as

make you a doormat, letting others step all

way you could please everyone

there was no point in

should stick to it! What could other people

long as your conscience was at

was the first to leave, with Lilly

of medical professionals in lab coats and scrubs came

matter of seconds, before pushing him

to stay here and keep listening

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

had admitted himself that he had

still thought that their old man had just finished surgery,

didn’t know what was going

they were going to let the Crawfords

of course, a few people were no match for

seconds, all of the Crawfords were

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

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

right kicked up a fuss 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

They left soon after, telling the Reed children, “We’re just acting by

truth, those words sounded like

ward and their respective family members

too much, they’re