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."

so beautiful too, with such fine skin.The drum made would be able to be heard

were talking about my Mindy." Mindy

she ran towards her, but

she would spread the

her sister calling out for her

the way, hiding

of those people— but they

this

finally realized why it was called the spirit drum.The spirit drum, or

that the drum could connect with the

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, and it was best if she had never

that was cut off the girl while she was

but grip her father tightly, goosebumps appearing

do that? Making a drum out of skin? Why would the gods protect them after

to Mindy like that

told everyone who

those were just rumors spread by people intending to cause harm.Rumors that were made up just

existed, but Mindy's drum

and finally returned to where they had

small and

in alleys and bushes, she had come across Mindy's

and eyes

the doll tightly, her eyes

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

people around, so they said they would take pity on me as I was a little kid who could still turn over anew

me back to my

furious, locking Jessie

in the first place.Ma told her to shut her mouth.Ma

Jessie lowered her head.

doll, and asked her if she wanted a Ma.I could give half of Ma to

Lilly was stunned.

be in

was not a

while she was asleep, and bashed her to death with a

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, as

to where the people who took Mindy away lived, and set a huge fire.She even burned herself to