Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Lilly stared at the river, her tiny face creased into a serious expression. It made for a rather adorable sight.

There was a livestream set up near the riverbank, and a creator was hosting another two meters away. The usually quiet riverbank was suddenly abuzz with dramatic voices.

“This is where the three girls drowned. Like and subscribe to the channel, and follow me as I bring you on a journey to get to the bottom of this curious case, the latest updates will…”

“The boats still haven’t found anything. Take a look at where I’m pointing at right now, this is where the male corpse was found… Oh, please feel free to check out the shopping cart! In it are a few listings for popcorn and chips, that you can all snack on while you watch the stream. Shipping immediately upon order!”

“Does anyone want to give us a gift or two? We’re currently battling with these guys, and we can’t let such a hot topic lose to them, can we? Am I right… Someone just gave us a huge tip, guys! Thank you so much! Peace be with you! Please follow this generous tipper!”

Lilly was speechless

She furrowed her brows, confused. “What are they doing, Dad?”

Blake looked over at the chaos. “This is hell on earth. Demons make merrier humans…”

Some people were just around for the drama, gossiping in the crowd and adding to the discourse. A life and death situation was a mere opportunity to profit for them.

Human beings are terrifying creatures. Some of us appear to be human, but possess hearts that are to be feared more than those of demons.

Lilly sucked on her lollipop, sulking quietly.

Blake asked, “Lilly, what do you need from Daddy?”

Lilly shook her head. “Nothing at the moment.”

Her master had said that there was a hierarchy for resentful spirits, too. Some resentful spirits could only come out during nighttime, but some of them could also appear in places with high levels of dark energy during the day.

Places such as the bottom of a river, bushes by the side of a riverbank, or the space underneath a bridge were all considered to hold quite a bit of dark energy.

last night had killed a boy, and

spirit would be too powerful and come out to cause more harm, and thus insisted on coming out to take a

“Are we

“Hang on… Dad, let’s go to the other side of the

sides of the river. This side was closer to the area’s residences, and was thus filled with more people. On the other

contrast was even more prominent at night, one end of

the river for two hours. His tongue was going to run dry,

were still barely any

Why did others’ streams have so many people watching, but he had barely any

This was so unfair.

of water. He glanced at the mere eleven people watching the stream, and didn’t

a tall, fit man carrying a little

out already, and the little

onlookers were focused on the river, their phones pointed towards

one had noticed the father and

at once. Wasn’t this

a billion videos about Lilly, Harvard

his gear,

practically glowing.

the tick of engines and the

pointed at the boats from the bridge, talking amongst

see the news? A boy jumped into the water to save the girls, and managed to save two of them… but

guy who

at the high school around here… the

saved the others but couldn’t

Blake put Lilly back on the ground. He held her hand, weaving

right. The two girls had been rescued

was the boy who had saved

and rescued the two girls first. When he went back for the third one, he never