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."

girl this skin belonged to checked all the boxes.She was so beautiful too, with such fine skin.The drum made would be able to be

my Mindy." Mindy was beautiful.She

Mindy as she ran towards her,

that she would spread the word, and

to hear her sister calling out for her to run in the

the way, hiding in a

those people— but they had left

I found them again, but this time I followed them

realized why it was called the spirit drum.The spirit

that the drum could connect with the afterlife, and overcome death and

to gods, to pray for the gods' protection.It had to be made out of the

yielded from skin that was cut off the girl while she

not help but grip her father tightly, goosebumps appearing on her skin as her hair stood

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

Mindy like that enrage the gods instead? Jessie let out

everyone who came to pray to

by people intending to cause harm.Rumors that were made up just because

existed, but Mindy's drum was right in

and finally returned to where they

was small and

in alleys and bushes, she had come across

put Mindy's hair and eyes

clutched the doll tightly, her eyes

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

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

they sent me

been furious, locking Jessie

over to those guys in the first place.Ma told her to shut her mouth.Ma would never

Jessie lowered her head.

and asked her if she wanted

Lilly was stunned.

Ma be

not

she was asleep, and bashed her to death

mirror in her house lit up 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

people who took Mindy away