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

about my Mindy." Mindy was beautiful.She was pure.She was also

ran towards her, but

seemed to be afraid that she would spread the word, and

her sister calling out for her to run in

seemed to lead the

abuse of those people—

again, but this time I followed them in

was called the spirit drum.The spirit drum,

said that the drum could connect with

the gods' protection.It had to be made out of the skin

best drum was yielded from skin that was cut

father tightly, goosebumps appearing on her skin as her hair

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

Mindy like that enrage the gods

took my Mindy away, but told everyone who came to

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

but Mindy's drum was right in front of

a trip around the island, and finally returned

small

bushes, she had come across Mindy's hair and

hair and eyes

the doll tightly, her

but they had their sticks and weapons.So I set a lot of their

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

me back

had been furious, locking Jessie

and screamed, asking Ma if she had known all along and if it was her who handed Mindy over 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.

her if she wanted a Ma.I could give half of

Lilly was stunned.

would your Ma be in half..."

Ma was not a good

while she was asleep, and bashed her to death

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

who took Mindy away lived, and