Spoiled by Eight Uncles (Lily)

As for Lilly, she returned to her room to see that the spirits had returned, all of them lying by the window.

They had been watching the show over here! The weakling spirit came up to Lilly at once, speaking in a gentle voice. “You're back, Darling.” Lilly, “Yeah, | saw the bad guys you punished! Took all their teeth out, awesome-" The weakling looked at Lilly adoringly. “Darling. These might be bad guys we're dealing with, but punishments have their limits.

We can't find joy in them.” Lilly nodded. “I've got it!” The harem spirit muttered: How kind of you, | didn’t hear you say any of that when you were ripping out people’s teeth...

The unlucky ghost punched the air excitedly. “Lilly, weren't we great? Do we get a reward? Ho ho...” Lilly felt around in her pockets. “Oh boy, | didn’t get any candy this time.” Her grandma never let her buy any candy, and it was her dad who snuck her some every time.

The unlucky ghost's eyes flashed with disappointment, but said immediately, “That's alright! You can make it up next time!” The weakling spirit glanced at him. “Do you have any shame, asking for candy from a kid? Don’t you listen to him, Darling. It's fine, with or without the candy.” It wasn't like they were doing this for the candy anyways.

Lilly hopped off the bed all of a sudden, walking up to her little dresser and pulling the drawers open. She felt around, emerging with a hidden piece of candy in her hand.

She then crawled under the bed, and emerged with another piece.

Then she looked in her wardrobe, and took out yet another piece from the pocket of one of her jackets.

The ghosts: ...

Uhh. People usually stored loose change like this, but she was hiding candy...

Lilly stared at the candy in her hands. There were three... there was one more.

She racked her brains with all her might for a while, before running out to the balcony and into Polly’s rainforest room, taking out one last piece of candy hidden among the bushes.

“Ta daa-” Lilly clutched the candies in her hand happily. “For you guys!” Her spirits were not going to go without their candy! The spirits stopped short, their long-cold hearts warming up all of a sudden.

How kind..

The Mccarthy family had only referred to them as slaves in the mountains.

They had literally given their souls to Lilly, and other people probably did see them as slaves...

They had once committed terrible sins, and had never imagined that a little child would treat them with such a sincere heart one day.

The weakling spirit hugged Lilly from behind. “Thank you, Darling...” Lilly's eyes turned into crescents, beaming widely. There seemed to be an entire universe in her smile, breathtaking and beautiful.

She said joyously, “That's no problem!” The harem spirit felt as if she was about to tear up. She was the first to take a piece of candy, declaring, “I want this pink one!” The unlucky ghost plucked one out as well. “Well, | want the green one, then.” The weakling spirit’s eyes were on the yellow candy in the middle of Lilly’s palm, and the remaining one was for the foolish ghost.

The spirits ate the candy happily, tasting the sweetness that only humans could experience.

How wonderful...

The harem spirit then changed the subject. “Oh right, Foolish. Your cause of death back at the mountains was excessive bleeding. How'd you die?” The foolish ghost had been thrown into the spirit jar the second he was captured, only getting his act together after getting beaten up one time too many.

Upon second thought, they had indeed not asked about why he died before.

The foolish ghost mumbled, “That... that's a long story, let's not get into it.” The spirits piped up at once. “Come on! The longer of a story the better, we've got plenty of time anyways!” Lilly lay on the bed, lifting her head up. “Yes, yes, | haven't even asked you how you died yet!” The foolish ghost stuttered and hesitated, before saying at last, “It's not that long of a story. | was holding the pesticides that | working overtime and forgot that the bottle of soda in the fridge w put in, downed the whole thing and got myself killed.” The spirits: ? Lilly: 2 Lilly realized that facing the bed and thinking about what she had done was too hard. Her face was buried in the sheets, making it hard for her to breathe.

And so she turned around, facing the ceiling and thinking about what she had done. That wasn’t cheating, right? “Why'd you put pesticides in your soda?” The kid asked curiously.

The foolish ghost sighed. “I was forced to.” “I was a middle-aged man, with people older and younger than me to take care of. A little over ten years ago, | lived in a pretty well-off county. | was not that rich, but had my own house equipped with a fridge, a TV and a computer.” It was considered a pretty big deal for a family to have their own computer back then. The place with the best business in town was the internet cafes, one easily found on every street.

The cafes were filled with young boys and girls still in school, surfing and gaming away.

His ten year old son was also addicted to the internet, skipping school all the time and climbing the walls to go to an internet cafe.

“My son’s education problems made my wife and | really worried. My wife and | both worked, and my mother was the only one looking after my son at home. There was no way she was going to be able to teach him well enough.” “My wife and my mother had never had a good relationship. My wife quit her job to take care of our son, but my mother would give her crap about being incompetent and say how hard could it be to raise a kid.” The harem spirit tsked at this. “I hate comments like this. A nanny costs thousands of dollars every month, but a daughter in law is free, isn’t she? A nanny and a punching bag all in one, what a deal.” The foolish ghost frowned. “My mom's not wrong, though. Not much was asked of her aside from taking care of a child, how tired could she get? That's why whenever my wife complained to me about her, I'd just tell her to be more patient.” The harem spirit rolled her eyes at the foolish ghost.

“Tsk, tsk. And then?” the unlucky ghost asked.

Lilly was a little sleepy, but asked anyways, “Tsk tsk, and then? The foolish ghost continued.

The more time his wife spent at home, the worse her relationship with her mother-in-law got. His mother would then get on his wife for not making money and only spending it, and the both of them fought all the time. So after his son started kindergarten, his wife went back to work.

“After that, all the chores at home were left for my mother to do. Then my mom started giving my wife crap again for not caring about the house at all.”