Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Jessie stroked the doll in her arms, her voice light and airy.

"I found her."

"I went all the way to the beach, but couldn't find Mindy.I had a feeling Mindy was home, and she might even be waiting for me there."

And so Jessie rushed back home.She could feel Mindy calling for her.It was a long and grueling journey.She almost got lost.But just then...

"I heard the sound of a drum.It was a very nice sound," Jessie said.

"It was like the drum could talk, and it sounded like Mindy talking."

Despite the fact that Mindy was mute, and had never spoken before.Jessie just had a feeling that that was Mindy.

"Mindy was telling me to come home.She was looking for me."

Following the sound of the drum, Jessie kept walking.Blisters began to grow on her feet, and she even lost a toenail.

At last, she saw a large crowd.They were all surrounding a drum, kneeling as they hit it.

"I could tell at once.That drum was Mindy..." Jessie said.

"It was a drum, made out of Mindy's skin."

The sentence made Lilly and the rest tremble, a chill running down their spines! Adrum made out of human skin?! Jessie continued.

"Where I'm from, everyone's skin is tan as wheat.Mindy was the only one with fair skin, soft and smooth..."

The harem spirit could not help but ask, "How are you so sure that it was a drum made out of… human skin? Could it have been, uh, other skin? Like goatskin, or something."

Jessie shook her head firmly.

"I'm certain! Because the drum sounded like Mindy's voice!" The ghosts fell silent.

Her sister was mute, but she was insisting that the drum sounded like her sister's voice.Did this mean that the sisters’ hearts were as one? Jessie's eyes filled with tears once again.

"I saw the men that came to my house in the crowd." They hugged the drum, caressing it adoringly after the crowd had left.

"I heard their secrets.They said that the spirit drum was ‘top notch’, made by a ‘virgin girl who had never been in love before’. That kind of drum was the purest, and it was even better that the girl was mute.

A mute person could never tell a lie, and their spirit would never be tainted."

all the boxes.She was so beautiful too, with such fine skin.The

were talking about my Mindy." Mindy was beautiful.She was pure.She

screamed for Mindy as she ran towards her, but was chased away with

she would spread the word,

to hear her sister calling out for her to

seemed to lead the way, hiding

abuse of those people— but they had left with

but this

finally realized why it was

the drum could connect

was mainly used to pray to gods, to pray for the gods' protection.It had to be made out of the skin of a girl who had never been in love before,

drum was yielded from skin that was cut off

help but grip her father tightly, goosebumps appearing

Making a drum out of skin? Why would the

like that enrage the gods instead? Jessie

otherwise.They took my Mindy away, but told everyone who came to pray to it that nothing of the sort

people intending to cause harm.Rumors that were made up just because they saw a

existed, but Mindy's drum was right

people made a trip around the island, and finally returned to where

small and

bushes, she had come across

put Mindy's hair and

the doll tightly, her eyes

wanted to get Mindy back, but they had their sticks and weapons.So I set a lot of their houses on

me.But there were other people around, so they said they would take pity on me as

me back

furious, locking Jessie

to those guys in the first place.Ma told her to shut her mouth.Ma would never admit to the truth.She threatened to stitch Jessie's mouth shut if

Jessie lowered her head.

doll, and asked her if she wanted a Ma.I could

Lilly was stunned.

your Ma be in

Ma was not a good

was asleep, and bashed her

as a bolt of lightning struck, and Jessie saw her reflection in the mirror.Her face was covered in blood.She looked terrifying.She even saw the doll sit up behind her,

away lived, and