Demon King – Chapter 446 – If I Were a Girl…

No matter what, people are always attached to home. Deep down, Eiru also longed to return home very much… but she simply could not swallow this grievance.

‘Why should it be like this? One moment they kick me out, the next they call me back, just ordering me around at will. From childhood to now, they never once really paid attention to me…’

And at this stage, she truly feared this home. What she wanted was her family’s care, to feel what it was like to have a home like other people did. But this home only had endless nagging and being ordered around. That feeling of always having to read her parents’ expressions made her feel deeply afraid.

Not just her, even Eiya was actually living by watching their parents’ moods. Normally she also had to play the role of the good, obedient girl. As for acting spoiled, that only ever happened when the two of them were in a good mood.

‘So you’re treating letting me come home as a reward? So I’m just not worthy of coming back, right? If I come back, are you going to kick me out again later?’

These words were almost shouted out by Eiru. The desolation in her heart had reached an extreme, to the point where she even wanted to laugh.

“If you don’t want to come back, then don’t. Saves gas money too. I give you face and you’re still making a fuss. Who’s paying for your schooling and your rent?”

Liu Wan’s temper was also stirred up. She was just about to continue lecturing when she was stopped by Ei Yuan.

“Alright, stop, stop.”

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Ei Yuan grabbed the short-tempered woman who was just short of rolling up her sleeves and hitting someone.

“Eat first. We’ll talk about this later.”

When the head of the household spoke, face still had to be given. Everyone quietly sat down and finished the food in their bowls. What should have been an ordinary lunch ended in an eerie silence.

After the meal, Eiru did not want to stay even a second longer. She turned and fled back to her room as if running away. Right now, just seeing Liu Wan’s face filled her with anger.

But not long after Eiru returned to her room, before she even had time to undo her disguise, a gentle knock came from outside the door…

She already knew who it would be coming to find her at this time. Even though she was still very upset about what had just happened, she went forward and opened the door.

She was just that kind of person. If you spoke properly and knocked politely, she would give you a polite response. But if you banged on the door and ordered her to open it, once her rebellious streak flared up, she would probably even drag the wardrobe over to block the door.

Having just had a big argument, her mom with that explosive temper definitely would not be coming to find her. And Eiya was probably scared stiff in her own room right now. The only one who could politely knock and come looking for her was her father.

Eiru’s guess was correct. As soon as she opened the door, Ei Yuan’s figure appeared in front of her. After a moment of silence, Ei Yuan walked into the room, closed the door behind him, then gestured for her to sit down, clearly wanting to talk.

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“You know what your mom’s temper is like. Don’t take it too much to heart… I still came because I want to talk to you about those things.”

After Eiru sat down, Ei Yuan also found a place to sit, speaking in a calm yet helpless tone.

Listening to him, Eiru still did not say a word. Toward her father, she had always held rather complicated feelings…

Compared to Liu Wan’s explosive temper, Ei Yuan was indeed much gentler toward the two sisters. Compared to her mother, who was almost impossible to communicate with, Eiru was more willing to talk to her father.

But Ei Yuan’s problem was also very obvious. Because of work and various other reasons, his attention to the family, especially to Eiru, was extremely low. He basically left everything entirely to Liu Wan to handle and generally did not involve himself in family matters.

As long as nothing major happened, he would not turn his gaze toward his family. Although it was not coldness or a lack of care, regardless of the reason, he indeed did not give his children a normal level of attention.

So toward Ei Yuan, Eiru also did not have much fondness. But because of his attitude, she usually would not show him a bad face either.

In terms of attitude, it was like something above a stranger but not quite a friend. Liking him was impossible, but she could not say she hated him either. At most, there was only a layer of blood relation tying the two of them together…

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As for Liu Wan, what kind of person she was, Eiru could not possibly be unaware as her child. Just a parent who was somewhat self-righteous and forcibly imposed her own will onto her children…

In fact, children’s powers of observation are always very strong. Even if you do not give them much attention or interaction, they can still understand their parents through their own observations.

Parents like Liu Wan, whose behavior is overly subjective, are not uncommon. They always use their own set of understanding and forcibly impose it onto their children.

You cannot say they are doing it for the child’s harm. On the contrary, they do it precisely because they believe it is for the child’s good. But such overly subjective and domineering behavior ignores the fact that their children are also individuals with independent thoughts.

Liu Wan was exactly this kind of parent. If you followed her wishes, she could speak to you nicely. But if you dared to go against her, not just Eiru, even Eiya, who was regarded as the apple of her eye, could not escape a head-on scolding. At most, because of Eiya’s special physical condition, she had never been beaten.

Compared to the usually lively and mischievous Eiru, Eiya, who always played the role of the obedient girl, performed far better in Liu Wan’s eyes…

So her favoritism toward her daughter and neglect of her son, while early on it was indeed because Eiya had special circumstances, later on, after Eiya survived and her condition stabilized in her eyes, the nature of it changed.

Later, on one hand it became habit, and on the other hand it was also to dangle bait in front of her son. To make Eiru feel that as long as she was obedient, she could be loved by the family just like Eiya. What she did not realize was that this instead stabbed right into the most painful spot in Eiru’s heart and further provoked her rebelliousness.

After all, when she was young and being neglected, setting aside the difference between boys and girls, Eiru’s obedience and good behavior did not fall much short of Eiya’s… so Liu Wan’s baiting strategy was doomed to fail from the moment it was carried out.

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That was why no matter how many nice things Ei Yuan said here on Liu Wan’s behalf, Eiru would never listen. Because she understood it better than anyone…

And let’s put it this way. When someone who already has no goodwill in another person’s heart comes to speak well for someone who has hurt them deeply and even caused disgust, how could that possibly work?

“I more or less understand why you don’t want to come home. Dad won’t force you… What I also want to say is that the reward wasn’t actually referring to letting you come home.”

“Dad, what if… I mean, what if.”

Raising a hand to interrupt her father, Eiru bit her lip, hesitated for a moment, then threw out a question that sounded somewhat nonsensical to Ei Yuan.

“If I were a girl like Little Ya… you… would you… treat me differently?”

After weighing it for a long time, Eiru still swallowed the words would you treat me better and instead used a more conservative way of asking…