The Princess to Eight Uncles Chapter 695

Chapter 695 A Public Trial

Lilly snatched Blake’s phone, her voice filled with menace. “Dad, screen mirroring, now!”

Blake’s phone had a screen nairroring feature, and even if it didn’t, with tech geniuses like Josh and Max present, they would make it happen.

But what stunned Blake was the unfamiliar scenes that appeared in his “surveillance footage.

On the mirrored screen, an elderly lady huddled tightly in plastic wrap braved the storm, crying out, “My child… open the door, Mom is freezing…

The lights in the second-floor room flickered on and quickly went out.

After a while, the screen turned dark, but upon closer inspection, someone could be seen discreetly peeping through the curtain at the old lady lying on the stone bench outside. As soon as they spotted her, they hastily closed the curtains.

It was none other than Daun himself.

“Do you have anything to say for yourself?” Lilly angrily demanded.

Daum paled, his face contorted in anguish, and he stammered indignantly, “Y-you… You’re spying on my -house?! What gives you the right to do that? It’s illegal, no one has the authority…!”

A police officer interrupted sternly, “Shut up! Do you know who he is? If he didn’t have the authority, no one could have investigated. He’s…”

“I’m the head of the investigative team at the bureau, Blake interjected calmly.

Several officers were taken aback, realizing that there might not be an issue after all.

Daun turned pale, realizing he was being watched by the investigative team. What did he do to deserve this kind of scrutiny? What a waste of their time!

Shaun and Tom immediately expressed their righteous indignation. “Daun, don’t even try to defend yourself! Look at yourself, are you even human? You must have heard our mother calling outside all night! You deliberately didn’t open the door! You killed Mom!”

Daun wanted to argue, but the evidence was right there in front of him. How could he possibly argue?

It was unknown what brand of the surveillance system was used, but it captured everything so clearly, even the moment he opened the curtains in the middle of the night.

Unlike those blurry surveillance videos found online, why was the footage in front of his house so clear?

Seeing Shaun and Tom blaming him and shifting the blame away from themselves, Lilly coldly remarked, “It’s not over yet; you’re all involved!”

The footage continued..

This time it was at Tom’s house.

The elderly lady approached Tom’s doorstep, cautiously calling out, “Tom, are you home? Can you open the door for Mom… Mom is cold and hungry…”

Tom’s door remained motionless, with no signs of anyone inside.

After waiting for a long time, the old lady bowed her head in disappointment and tremblingly left.

Tom immediately spoke up. “See, I wasn’t home…”

He couldn’t finish his sentence.

15 Bonus

Suddenly, the door that was just still swung open silently. Tom peered out, cursed under his breath. “It’s not my turn this month, why is she coming to me?”

Then he quickly retreated inside, firmly closing the door.

Tom’s words stuck in his throat, leaving him no room to defend himself!

What kind of surveillance system was this, where was it installed, and why was even his conversation recorded so clearly?

He was familiar with his doorstep, and there was no surveillance there….

Molly immediately berated him, “Tom, do you have any shame? Just a moment ago, you were pretending

like it was true!”

Shaun suddenly hesitated, uncertain of his actions. If Daun and Tom’s houses were captured so clearly. could it be possible that his doorstep was also recorded so vividly?

However, his house was located in a village without any surveillance cameras.

With newfound courage, Shaun joined in, echoing the accusations,

But Lilly, like a ferocious beast, snapped at them, “None of you are getting away!”

In the “surveillance footage,” the image of the elderly lady appeared at the end of the village road, her clothes drenched and sticking to her body as she trembled from the cold.

Molly, holding an umbrella, emerged from a neighbor’s house with a smile on her face, seemingly engaged in gossip and ready to cook dinner.

Suddenly, her expression changed, and she spotted her mother’s figure in the distance.

She quickly turned onto another small road and only returned to the direction of the town after the elderly woman had left.

It was true that Molly wasn’t at home and had indeed gone to the town.

But she went to the town because she saw her mother, to avoid her.

The gazes of the others toward Molly changed. She had just made the most “reasonable” argument, and everyone could understand her situation as a married woman living with her in-laws. It was often complicated…

While it was a difficult situation, it could be somewhat understandable.

“If I had a daughter like that, I’d strangle her!” an outraged neighbor who was watching the scene exclaimed.

Another neighbor sneered, “Indeed, she wasn’t at home. After all, she saw her mother coming back but didn’t return home.”

Molly’s face turned red, and she couldn’t utter a single word.

Shaunangrily said, “You elder siblings have truly lost your conscience…”

Blake sneered, “Why the rush to speak? It’s your turn now.”

Shaun’s heart skipped a beat.

Stay calm, stay calm. There’s no surveillance at his doorstep!

Perhaps the child accidentally passed by and saw it. But who would believe their one-sided words….

Just as he was thinking this, the screen mirroring flashed, and it was truly his turn.

When the elderly lady arrived at his doorstep. her clothes and hair were soaked, and she trembled uncontrollably.

She knocked on the door for a long time, perhaps out of despair, and started crying when she reached Shaun’s house.

“Shaun, please open the door. Mom has nowhere else to go…”

In the cold wind, raindrops occasionally landed under the eaves. The elderly woman, shivering in the raging storm, cried helplessly, wiping away her tears.

In her eyes, Shaun’s house was her only hope.

The door indeed opened, and she was taken aback for a moment, then filled with joy and hurriedly approached.

However, Shaun wanted her to leave.

She begged him to let her in even just to change her clothes, but Shaun was afraid she would linger and refused her request.

Shaun heartlessly shook off his own mother’s hand and told her to go back and find Daun.

The elderly woman stood in despair in front of the door. Her murky eyes filled with disappointment. confusion, and helplessness. Trembling, she turned around and embarked on the path to knock on another child’s door…

The subsequent surveillance” footage was missing.

Yet, the people present inexplicably envisioned a scene: the frail old lady hobbling along the path to each child’s house in the village, enduring the cold and hunger for over an hour. Amid the typhoon, she had only a thin layer of plastic wrap to shield her from the rain.

For two days, she tirelessly walked to and fro between her children’s homes, cold and hungry. She struggled, her steps faltering, but she couldn’t knock on any of her children’s doors!

Eventually, she couldn’t walk any further. She curled up on a stone bench outside Daun’s house, and there, she peacefully fell into eternal slumber, never to rise again….