Demon King – Chapter 531 – Yunyue Doesn’t Hold Back

Everyone knows about it already, what’s there to talk about evidence for. Seeing that Eiru’s attitude was clearly leaning more toward Yunyue, Xuenan naturally didn’t bother staying to embarrass herself. After tossing out that line, she hurried off.

Before leaving, she shot Yunyue a glare full of threat. It was obvious that no matter how this situation wrapped up, once they were back in the dorm, the two of them definitely weren’t going to be giving each other any friendly looks.

“Um… even though it’s kind of rude to ask right now, do you two really not have some kind of grudge between you?”

The little Demon Lord’s mouth twitched. If possible, she really didn’t want things to develop to the point of completely tearing faces with Xuenan.

Even if it was greedy, for someone like her who didn’t have many friends yet desperately craved attention from others, when faced with this kind of either-or situation, she’d much rather blurt out that timeless maxim.

I want them all.

Given how blatantly Xuenan had just targeted Yunyue, Eiru would honestly believe it even if someone said the two of them were sworn enemies. Otherwise, with no grievance or hatred, suddenly going in this hard, wasn’t that just sick in the head?

“I don’t even know how I ever pissed off that crazy woman. Normally we’d say at most two sentences to each other, there’s basically no interaction.”

Yunyue said. At this point, she didn’t feel like giving anyone face anymore. She’d already done all she could. With the other side treating her like this, what reason did she have to stay polite?

“But she wasn’t wrong about one thing. A lot of people on campus have been spreading rumors about me… my reputation in school is terrible. You know that too.”

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As she spoke, Yunyue lowered her head, completely different from her earlier tough appearance. The exhausted look, both mentally and physically, made her seem especially helpless, painful to look at.

“I only knew that classmates excluded you before because you interacted with Qianmeng and Qianchen. I really don’t know about anything else…”

“That’s because you don’t pay attention to this stuff at all. You skip class and slack off all day, and in a whole year you didn’t even know who I was.”

Yunyue said, half amused and half annoyed, reaching out to hook a finger under Eiru’s small nose.

“I told you before about my family situation. With my parents’ kind of indulgent, hands-off attitude, my younger brother went bad as soon as he got into middle school and started hanging out with those shady people outside.”

After Yunyue’s half-brother started running with that bunch of street punks, he’d spend his days loitering around with them, getting up to things. Weekends were even worse, often staying out until mealtime or even late at night.

Their parents were busy with work, and Yunyue’s status at home wasn’t great to begin with. So a lot of the time, she was the one being sent out late at night to look for her brother.

Whenever anything happened at home, Yunyue could only steel herself and go out to look for that delinquent brother of hers. Inevitably, she’d have to come into contact with those little punks, asking them about her brother’s whereabouts. Over time, rumors naturally spread about Yunyue associating with out-of-school hooligans.

That brother of hers, though he’d never really liked his older sister, at least didn’t cross lines on matters of principle. And he was surprisingly good socially, mixing quite well among that group of punks.

Otherwise, with Yunyue’s looks, if she’d really run into that crowd, something would have happened to her long ago. Most of them knew she was someone’s sister, and more or less gave her brother some face. In a roundabout way, that also ensured her safety as a girl going out alone.

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“And because of you, I’ve also had dealings with Li Yuki and the others. Add in those rumors about me interacting with punks, and I got directly labeled as some kind of social butterfly… saying I have improper relationships with people from all walks of life, even going as far as making up stuff like body transactions.”

Yunyue sighed. For a girl to be branded with so many labels over her reputation. If it weren’t for people like Qianmeng and Qianchen believing in her and caring about her, she might really have been driven into depression by this garbage.

“Sometimes when my brother gets into fights, I even have to go pick him up… seriously, those teachers and department heads, the way they look at me with disdain, it makes me feel so awful I want to die.”

“It’s okay now, don’t be scared. Things will get better.”

The little Demon Lord said. Seeing the girl’s aggrieved, helpless look, even though she wasn’t good at comforting people, she still opened her arms and turned around to hug her.

“Next time if I see your brother, I’ll help you teach him a lesson. So young and not learning anything good, running off to hang out with those people. That’s just too low.”

“Pfft, didn’t you already beat him up once?”

Yunyue laughed at the girl’s words, temporarily forgetting her sadness as she recalled something funny from before.

“Last time he saw me walking with you, he was so scared his face turned purple. After getting home he kept asking me what my relationship with you was.”

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“He said before that he and a bunch of his buddies were playing cards in an alley, and suddenly a silver-haired little loli ran in demanding to know where her younger sister was… then one of them went up to tease her a bit, and the whole group got beaten down.”

Oh, that incident… With Yunyue bringing it up, Her Majesty the Demon Lord remembered which one it was too. But back then she’d basically treated all the punks in the entire East District as dungeon mobs and cleared them once. Who was who, she really had no idea.

“Alright, enough sad stuff. Now for the important part. I won’t beat around the bush. She doesn’t give me any face anyway. Gao Xuenan only treats Jixian as an ATM. Forget feelings, whether she even sees him as a friend is hard to say.”

If people wanted to see her as a scheming green tea stirring things up, then so be it. She, Yunyue, already had plenty of labels, one more didn’t matter. Since you, Gao Xuenan, messed with me, I definitely won’t let you off easy.

“Huh? No way… that’s way too casual, isn’t it? Just because he has money, she holds hands and gets close? Aunt Mu spent a really long time before she finally let her drop her guard…”

Honestly, Eiru found it hard to believe. If this hadn’t come from Yunyue’s mouth, she would have thought it was subjective slander. In the world she lived in, this kind of scheming really was far too distant.

“Back then, it was her and a few others who saw me asking around about my brother’s whereabouts, and they spread the rumors everywhere about me being involved with those people…”

Yunyue made a disgusted expression and continued exposing some of Xuenan’s dark history.

“And you still… have such a good temper…”

The little Demon Lord’s mouth twitched. Living with someone who smeared you like that and still staying polite, that level of self-control was something else.

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“Same to you. Aren’t you also completely indifferent to those smear rumors about you? You know how tiring it is to clear things up, so you might as well lie flat. As long as we have a few friends who care about us, that’s enough.”

“I know you won’t just believe it outright. She really is good at pretending. But there’s one thing you can go check. You’re a Demon Lord anyway. For you it should be easy, right?”

Yunyue hooked Eiru’s chin and smiled as she told her an extremely important piece of information.

Not just Jixian. Gao Xuenan was simultaneously stringing along multiple guys. Keeping her distance on the surface, while treating all of them as her wallets. And Jixian was just the one with the best conditions, the thickest wallet of them all.

Translator Note

I just realized, wasn’t the first time Xuenan met Eiru was when Eiru in male form and knew Eiru’s deskmate is Yuki? And now she knows Eiru’s female form is Yuki’s deskmate too. Why is she not confused or anything about it? Did the author forget that? Is this a plothole~? Or am I misunderstood something? Haha xD