Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Lily clutched the amulet in her hand, frowning at the tarp in the distance.

“This resentful spirit’s a tough one,” said Lilly. “She… huh?”

Blake asked, “What’s up?”

Lilly pointed at the corpse in the distance. “Daddy, her eyes are closed.”

Blake looked over. That really was the case.

No one had been paying attention to the corpse, but Lilly had been watching closely.

Her eyes had been round and open, and now they were closed.

Blake said, “But that didn’t happen to the boy’s body from last night…”

The male corpse’s eyes had been rolled back in the river. It moved twice when he got on shore, following him.

Lilly stared at the river for a long time. “I’ve got it… we were wrong, Daddy.”

Blake said, “Oh?”

Lilly replied, “There should be two resentful spirits. One of them is fierce, the other one not so much. The one who grabbed you yesterday was the fiercer one, Daddy. I think the less fierce one is in that lady’s body.”

Blake understood at once. “So there had only been two girls who fell into the water last night. This girl Jane’s been dead for a long time, and became bait. The boy saw Jane after saving the two girls, and went into the water. Then he was killed by the resentful spirit.”

Lilly nodded, holding up a thumb. “You’re a genius, Dad!”

Blake waggled his eyebrows. “Well, of course.”

Lilly said, “How’d the two girls fall into the water anyways? Did they see Jane when they fell in?”

Blake said, “I’ve looked that up for you. The girls thought the lights looked really pretty reflected onto the water, and fell in while they were trying to take photos.”

dragged out. They were too terrified at the moment

immediately. The boy had just reached shore when he heard

had saved both girls, and no one was supposed to die in

was with

upright underneath the banyan tree by the river

onto shore. Even if she had been caught by

the amulet in her hands, her tone nothing but worried. “Now we get it. We just

seen her, and were most likely not going to go close

about I take you

perked up at once, raising a

us. We should dress up

into his arms. “You mean to

as a woman so you won’t be recognized,

was baffled

were leaving, Harvard finally put his phones

over, trying to get firsthand footage of the corpse. They

kept walking, not even caring about getting a

He had breaking news!

his room,

Watches Woman Drown’,

“Dead Female Body Found” were

“Rest in peace!”

“I cried…”

is no suffering in

of Blake

the girl, but not letting

speechless. How do people like this

video of the girl’s mother blaming the rescue team for coming too late to save her daughter

no way of climbing onto shore. Even if she had been caught by a branch, there

too! Gosh, my blood pressure spiked

true, but that tall dude isn’t exactly an angel either? Why’d

everyone should speak too soon. There was probably danger in the water, and that was why