Spoiled by Eight Uncles (Lily)

The tattletale's mother cried and made a scene at the school gate. She had been asking around these days and eventually found out that the two female classmates come from wealthy families.

Why do rich people have to target ordinary folks like them? Can't they be a bit more tolerant?

"He's just a child."

Hannah got out of the car with Lilly and frowned at the sight.

"Why don't we enter the school later?" Hannah pulled Lilly. "Let's go."

She didn't want Lilly to face such a distressing situation.

However, Lilly didn't see the need to avoid it at all. Instead, she walked over and looked down at the middle-aged woman crying on the ground.

"Your son is just a child. Aren't we children as well?"

Lilly calmly said, "If the complete video of this incident doesn't exist, wouldn't my sister and I be ruined because of it?"

The woman continued to wail, grabbing Lilly's pants and cursing angrily, "How can you compare the two? Your family is so rich! You're set for life even if you don't study! Even if you are misunderstood, it won't affect you much. People will say you're bad kids at most. What does it matter? Why are you so petty? Can't you just let us go after we apologize?!"

Lilly chuckled. "Is that right, Madam? If apologies were effective, why do we need the police? There are laws and regulations in this world. If you commit a crime, you will have to bear the consequences! Even i our family is rich, we are not obligated to tolerate your mistakes! This is not being petty. So, you can forget trying to guilt trip us into letting you off the hook."

Hannah promptly sauntered over as she stood in front of Lilly and said brashly, "What's wrong? Is being rich a crime? Should we be considerate of your circumstances and starve ourselves just because we're rich? Are you saying we should let others bully us and step on us just because we're loaded? Please! The money was earned by our elders through hard work. Every penny has withstood the test! They work s hard to earn money for us to live a more comfortable life, not to be bullied by the likes of you!"

Hannah was really fed up with people telling her to be more patient just because she hailed from an affluent family. So, she never mentioned that she was part of the Crawford family.

Although others were aware that her family was well off, they simply assumed she was from a middle-upper-class family.

Nevertheless, back to the matter at hand, it was one thing to guilt trip her but another monster when this old hag was trying to manipulate Lilly!

Hannah snorted, pulling Lilly, and walked into the school with her head held high.

Sure, she didn't like being in the limelight because of her family's connections. Still, there was nothing she feared in the world!

Meanwhile, the middle-aged woman continued crying and making a scene. Unfortunately, it was useless as she was not in the right.

In the end, the school reported her to the police for causing trouble, and she was taken into custody.

Whenever she started to cause trouble, the Crawford family would deliberately send her into the top 10 trending tags.

They were more than willing to give her the exposure she wanted!

Besides, it wasn't as though they couldn't afford it!

Eventually, the netizens started digging into the Dross family as she continued to make a nuisance of themselves.

That was when things got interesting as they soon exposed the tattletale's father for bribery and exposed the mother's history of live streaming and selling fake goods.

When the snitch's father returned, he wasted no time slapping her across the face. Sure enough, she stopped causing a ruckus after being threatened with divorce papers. She dared not cause trouble again lest it resulted in her sleeping on the streets.

The workload in the third year of junior high started to get heavy as they were preparing for high school. Nonetheless, Lilly had completed half of the curriculum unknowingly as she studied daily. Every day, someone would write on the blackboard, '100 days until the final exams.'

One day after school, Lilly was hurrying down the stairs when she accidentally bumped into a boy walking with his head down.

"Oh!" Lilly stopped in her tracks. "It's you."

She looked at the boy in surprise. His face was mottled with bruises. There was no doubt he had been beaten up by someone!

He was wearing an oversized hoodie despite the hot weather. It definitely didn't help matters that he also wore a hoodie and a hat, covering his face the best he could. Considering how he was practically swimming in fabric, he was looking rather frail, too.

When he saw Lilly, he panicked, lowered his head, and pulled the hat down to cover his face.

Just as he was about to leave, he stumbled and fell down the stairs.

The school doctor was about to get off work.

He was just thinking about what to have for dinner when he nearly had a heart attack!

He was so shocked that he rubbed his eyes to chase away the hallucination. Alas, that only served to remind him that a slender girl was truly carrying a boy on her shoulder. There wasn't a bit of labored breath as she steadily walked toward the school doctor's office.

The doctor could only gape at them in bewilderment.

Lilly said, "Sir, I found this classmate unconscious on my way home. So, I brought him here."

The school doctor shuffled off his amazement and quickly took the boy from her shoulders.

Fortunately, the boy gradually woke up after a thorough examination.

When he caught sight of Lilly, he immediately turned his face away to cover it!

The school doctor jotted down some notes and said, "Well, kid? Which class are you from? What's your name?"

The boy remained silent. The school doctor looked at him twice and asked two more times before he finally spoke, "I'm a third year from Class Seven... Cameron Owen."

Lilly was surprised.

Owen... That sounded familiar.

At this moment, she had a strange feeling.

The gears of destiny were turning. It was as if she had traveled back to the time when she first met Michael.

The school doctor said with a frown, "I think it goes without saying that your health is awful!"

Then, he questioned with a frown that it seemed it could be etched in stone. "Was someone hitting you?"

Cameron pursed his lips and lied through the skin of his teeth, "No, I just fell by myself. I'm just... too hungry. I-I haven't eaten anything all day."

The school doctor took his words for granted and naturally found it strange when they didn't line up with his prognosis.

"Regardless, the school doesn't have equipment like CT scans. Call your parents to take you to the hospital immediately." Unfortunately, he didn't expect Cameron to leap out of the bed, put on his shoes, and grab his backpack from the corner.

"No, thank you!" He disappeared in a flash.

Lilly watched his back, utterly immersed in her thoughts as she did.