Demon King – Chapter 481 – Eye for Friends

“If the other side has parents. You can’t just snatch her away by force, right?”

Officer Li sounded a bit helpless. No matter what, that girl was still the child of his old friend, son or daughter aside. He couldn’t just pretend the parents didn’t exist.

“Depends on the situation. We’ll try our best to bring her over. You know quite a bit about those girls too. How many of them were actually treated well by their families?”

Ning Xin had investigated plenty of things herself. The tragic experiences of those girls had genuinely touched the softest part of her heart.

It couldn’t really be called abuse, but the vast majority of the Daughters of Amber Crystal were effectively kept under house arrest, forbidden from contacting outsiders. They were fed and clothed well, sure, but they were never treated like people. Their so-called families only wanted them to live longer so they could keep bringing good fortune to the household.

As for families that didn’t understand those legends, driven by crushing medical expenses and fear of the abnormal, they either ostracized and abused the girls or outright abandoned them. The reason Daughters of Amber Crystal appeared in the orphanage where Yuki’s parents lived was precisely because of this.

So based on all that, Ning Xin believed that even if that girl’s parents were still alive, there was an eighty percent chance she wouldn’t be treated well. She herself was just an ordinary person with silver hair and blue eyes, yet she had already endured plenty of strange looks and treatment. As for those girls burdened with such unfortunate destinies, she truly didn’t think many families would treat them kindly.

“But you’re telling me all this… be honest with me. Did you run into a suspected girl?”

Her partner had been bringing up this topic all day. Ning Xin couldn’t help but start feeling suspicious.

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“Maybe yes, maybe no… I can’t be sure. After all, white hair and blue eyes. You’re an example too, aren’t you?”

Although Officer Li felt that Eiru was very likely the person they had been searching for all along, rationally speaking there was still no concrete evidence, so he chose a conservative answer.

“I’m a special case, I think so too…”

After struggling in society for so many years, Ning Xin had interacted with all kinds of people. Yet even with such a wide network, she had never seen a second person like herself, with silver hair and blue eyes.

And judging from the fact that Yuki had inherited her hair and eye color, this trait should be hereditary. But her biological parents, who kept coming around to mooch benefits, had completely normal hair and eye colors.

That was why, at the beginning, she had gone into a parentage test with the intention of shutting those people up, gambling on sealing their mouths. The result, however, showed that they truly were her biological parents.

That was awkward. What was meant to shut them up instead put her in an unfavorable position. Holding the test results, those two old scoundrels became even more brazen, standing on the moral high ground and demanding benefits from her.

Even though she had a stomach full of questions she wanted to ask, out of fear she wouldn’t be able to control her emotions, Ning Xin could only hand the task of probing for clues to her partner.

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Under Officer Li’s roundabout questioning, they obtained a piece of information from the two old scoundrels that was shocking yet extremely crucial. When they abandoned Ning Xin back then, she had been an ordinary little girl with black hair and dark brown eyes, no different from anyone else.

Although Daughters of Amber Crystal did have strange cases where hair and eye color changed later in life, Ning Xin clearly wasn’t one of them. And even more bizarre was the fact that this acquired change in hair and eye color could apparently be inherited. That only made Ning Xin’s origins even more baffling.

Still, that was all in the past. Occasionally digging into it was fine, but for Yuki’s parents, what mattered more was the present and the future. Working hard and creating better material conditions for their son’s growth was what they believed to be the most important thing right now.

“Then let’s change topics. Yuki’s been taking leave pretty often lately. I’m a bit concerned. If that brat has started dating some girl, how do you plan to handle it?”

It had to be said, Officer Li’s conversational tactics were impressive. If he directly asked Ning Xin about her attitude toward their son dating, she would definitely grow suspicious. If she started investigating, those two kids wouldn’t be able to handle it.

So instead, he used Yuki’s frequent leave as the opening, bringing up the question with a tone of suspicion. This more or less reduced the chance of her becoming directly suspicious.

“He’d dare? A student’s main duty is studying. If he dares to go fool around with some other family’s girl for no reason, or hang out with those sketchy girls, I’ll break his legs!”

“I’m just suspicious. You don’t need to get this worked up…”

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Officer Li kept a straight face. His lover’s intense reaction was completely within his expectations.

“I know he’s been taking more leave recently. I plan to talk to him soon. If he really is neglecting his studies because of dating, then I’ll have to consider how to deal with it.”

“He’s not that young anymore. I think he can handle these things himself. Puberty and having thoughts about girls is normal. Dating doesn’t have to be killed with one stick. Back when we were in high school…”

Officer Li tried to change her perspective, but he was cut off halfway through.

“Don’t speak up for him. Times are different now. Everything in society is fast-food style. It’s not the same as back then.”

As a strong woman who had fought her way through society, Ning Xin believed she saw the current era very clearly.

“I’m not forbidding him from dating altogether. But look at kids these days. Almost all of them are just three days of enthusiasm, dating for a bit and then breaking up. Rather than love, it’s more like satisfying their inner impulse toward the opposite sex. To them it’s like a trend…”

Like Officer Li, when it came to Yuki dating, Ning Xin actually held a similar attitude and viewpoint. That was that it must not affect studies or life, and one had to be responsible to oneself, to the other person, and to the whole family.

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Seeing Yuki as the apple of her eye, Ning Xin neither wanted her son to become the kind of scumbag who deceived other people’s good girls, nor did she want those sketchy girls to seduce and hurt her son.

Believing that her child was still not mature enough when it came to making friends, and that dating was still too early, Ning Xin felt that preaching all those grand principles wouldn’t have much effect. So she simply killed it with one stick and issued a ban, forbidding him from dating during high school.

“Little Ki’s eye for friends is pretty good, right? In that regard, I don’t think you need to distrust him that much.”

Although he didn’t know his son’s social circle all that well, Officer Li was very confident in Yuki’s judgment of people. A father with decent judgment would naturally raise a son who wasn’t that far off.

“Pretty good? He’s just a kid, still green! Do you know what kind of fox friends he’s hanging out with?”

Raising an eyebrow, Officer Li’s words seemed to enrage Ning Xin. She became visibly agitated.

“The others are fine, but that Eiru… He thinks I don’t know. He’s still fooling around with that Eiru even now. He even dares to befriend someone like that, a hooligan-type. You tell me, what kind of eye for people does he have?”