Spoiled by Eight Uncles (Lily) novel Chapter 178

The harem spirit looked at Roxie. “Your mother deserved it. You deserve a second chance at being reborn, though. Do you want that?”

Roxie chuckled all of a sudden, shaking her head. “No, I’m going to be with Mother.”

“She’s still my mother, no matter how evil she is…”

She had killed many people as well, and deserved to die just like her mother.

Especially that poor girl Jane… possessing her in the past two days to lure people into the water only made her feel even more guilty.

Roxie flew towards the jar of souls, and was usurped in a poof.

The jar lay silent on the ground. A ray of light shone across it, making its bright red color even more eye–catching.

Lilly picked it up, wiping it a little. She touched her bracelet gently, and the jar was attached at once.

Blake walked over, hoisting her up. “What’s wrong, Lilly?”

This was the first time Lilly had succeeded at capturing a spirit. Despite it being only a resentful spirit… she should feel pretty good about this.

Instead, she felt strangely hollow.

She frowned in confusion, telling the story of the mother and daughter spirits.

The kid asked, “The auntie spirit fell in and drowned herself, and Roxie only drowned because she was trying to save her. Why did the auntie spirit blame others?”

“Jane was innocent, and around the same age as Roxie. Why didn’t the auntie spirit just let her go?”

“Also, Jane’s mom spent the past two days looking for Jane in a panic… but she said those things to hurt Jane before she drowned. Why?”

Jane only said that she was at the river, but her mother had said such hurtful things. She told her daughter to die, and jump if she really dared…

“Jane’s dead, and it’s all because her mother didn’t care about her! Why did her mother have to blame the rescue team, why?”

Lilly did not understand any of it.

Blake thought of the middle-aged woman, causing trouble in the water again and again knowing she couldn’t swim.

She refused to accept the truth even after Jane’s body had been pulled up, assaulting the rescue team members and accusing them of killing her daughter…

He carried Lilly to the dock, the cool night breeze soothing their frustrations.

Then he said, “Roxie’s mother hated herself for causing her daughter’s death. She could have just washed the sheets with the washing machine, but went to the river instead and unexpectedly killed both of them.”

“That middle-aged auntie never thought that the words she had said in a fit of anger would lead to her daughter’s actual death.”

“They both share the same kind of regret, with no way of turning things around. So to feel better about themselves, they blamed others.”

It wasn’t just Roxie’s and Jane’s mothers. There were many parents who had the tendency to blame others for the pain they had inflicted onto their children.

Blake reached out and petted Lilly’s head. “Cheer up. You were awesome today.”

“Besides, some good came out of it. Roxie learned her lesson in the end, didn’t she? There’s always a silver lining to things.”

“You can’t just focus on the bad every time. Light should be sought out at all times, no matter how small…”

Blake’s voice was warm and gentle, his gaze tender like never before. He was comforting Lilly in his own ways.

Lilly lay on Blake’s shoulder, giving it some thought before nodding at last. “Yes, that’s true!”

Daddy was right. There was always a good side to things, you just had to find it!

By the time everyone had gotten home, Lilly had fallen asleep from the fatigue.