Demon King – Chapter 625 – Love Might Also Be Shackles

“What?! You’re saying you found my son? Where is he? Who is he with? What’s his situation right now?”

Receiving such a call in the afternoon, Liu Wan practically jumped up from the sofa.

Hearing the commotion in the living room, Ei Yuan also rushed out of the room in a hurry. He saw how agitated his wife was, looking as if she wanted nothing more than to crawl straight into the phone and interrogate the person on the other end face to face.

“You’re saying he doesn’t want to see us? What kind of nonsense is that, I’m his own mother… Forget the rest for now, where is he? I’ll go find him right now…”

Before she could finish speaking, Ei Yuan frowned and interrupted her. He reached out, took the phone from her hand, and began talking to the person on the other end himself.

“You don’t need to tell me where he is yet… How is he right now? Is he okay? Is there anything wrong with him…”

Hearing those words, Liu Wan looked at him in disbelief. Their son had been missing outside for so long, and as his father he could actually say something like not needing to know his whereabouts first?

“Mm… I see… alright. Then please trouble them to take good care of him for now. Mm, as long as he’s fine, that’s good. No need to say where he is or who he’s with yet.”

The moment Ei Yuan hung up the phone, Liu Wan, whose emotions had been building up for a long time, rushed over and grabbed his clothes, demanding answers.

“What’s wrong with you? Why did you hang up?! We finally had a lead, and they even know where he is. Why didn’t you ask for his location?!”

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“Wake up! He doesn’t want to see us right now. Even if you get his location, what are you going to do by rushing over there!”

Shaking off her grip, Ei Yuan roared back at her.

“But he’s our son. How could there be such a thing as not wanting to see his own parents…”

“But I just beat him not long ago, did you forget…”

Thinking of that, Ei Yuan deflated like a punctured balloon and collapsed onto the sofa.

“If we go over now, we’ll only scare him. Let everyone calm down for a while… As long as he’s safe, as long as nothing happened to him.”

Leaning back and staring at the ceiling, the heart that Ei Yuan had kept hanging in his chest all this time finally eased a little.

“Then you could at least have gotten the location. At least later on we could go see him…”

Hearing his wife’s words, Ei Yuan let out a bitter smile. How could he not want to rush to his son’s side immediately to check on him? But knowing what he himself had done, he was very clear that he could not go over right now.

If he knew the location, not only Liu Wan, but he himself would probably lose control and rush straight to where Eiru was. So he did not ask the person on the phone for the address. Only by not knowing the location could they avoid running over and frightening the child.

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“Put yourself in his shoes, Wan… He just took a beating like that not long ago, and I even said those things to him. How could he not be afraid, how could he not reject us?”

“He’s completely avoiding us right now, choosing to stay with others rather than with us… Do you know what that means? Shouldn’t we, as parents, reflect on ourselves? You also know very well what kind of reaction your rushing over like that would trigger.”

She sat down on the sofa in silence. Even though his tone was calm and explanatory, Liu Wan felt as if she had been harshly accused. Unable to refute or argue anything, she could only accept his words in silence.

“And let’s not talk about studying and grades for now. With his current state, there’s no way he can go to school anyway… Let him take it slow. Those things aren’t that important.”

‘Yes, nothing else was important. As long as the child was safe and sound.’

With things having reached this point, Liu Wan could no longer realistically bring up school matters anymore.

Something this big had happened. Everyone needed time to calm down… Later on, they could pick a time to ask the other side about Eiru’s whereabouts and go see him then.

These parents were undoubtedly unqualified, and they had done no small number of things that wronged their child. But still, who could say that they did not love their child?

Leaving aside Ei Yuan, who rarely involved himself in household matters, even Liu Wan, who had constantly danced on landmines and crossed her child’s bottom lines, undoubtedly loved her child as well.

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But if that love was imposed onto the child in their own way… then this love, which should have brought warmth and support to the child, would instead become shackles and chains that bound the child in place.

Yet many parents would never realize this. They would only feel that they loved their child, that they were doing it for the child’s own good… All of the child’s resistance and rejection, in their eyes, were nothing more than immaturity due to lack of experience, nothing more than ignorant rebellion.

Thus the conflict piled up layer by layer. Even if in the end it buried the entire family in tragedy, they might still be unable to realize whether they themselves had done anything wrong.

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Because it was the weekend, all the members of Dorm 1503 had come over today to visit their dorm’s beloved pet and dorm beauty. The small space was instantly filled with a lively atmosphere.

Officer Li had already finished treating Eiru’s injuries and changing her dressings for the day, so he did not stay behind to disturb the youngsters. With not much entertainment available in the hotel room, everyone could only… play board games.

Go, Chinese chess, checkers, and so on. Over the course of the afternoon, the group had gone through seven or eight different kinds of board games. In these tabletop board games, Her Majesty the Demon Lord had completely gone on a killing spree…

“Fuck, there’s no way to win. You’re cheating, aren’t you?”

Annoyed, Ziyu slammed the piece in his hand onto the bed and began his useless rage.

But it really was not his fault. The four of them, four grown guys, had taken turns across seven or eight different games to play against a single loli… and the entire afternoon, they had not won a single round.

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Throwing matches was out of the question. But honestly, being able to keep losing over and over yet still stick around to fool around with a certain silver-haired loli was enough to show just how good their relationship was…

“Winning would be a miracle…”

Yuki complained while holding his head. Ever since learning Eiru’s true identity, he finally understood why he had never been able to beat her at these kinds of games.

You could say card games, where luck and skill were both involved, at least still gave you a slim chance against this cheating loli. But aside from things like flying chess, when it came to board games, facing her was nothing short of being crushed by a higher dimension.

Top-tier players could predict the board several moves or even a dozen moves ahead. This little monster was on another level… from the moment you placed your piece, she had already calculated the game all the way to the end.

“Please, little princess… can we play flying chess?”

“Nope. Bullying noobs is super fun! And my luck isn’t that great anyway. What if all of you reach the finish line and I still haven’t rolled a single six… then what am I supposed to play?”

It was obvious that a certain loli had fully immersed herself in this kind of sadistic pleasure. Holding a piece between two fingers and lightly tapping it against the board, the little Demon Lord wore an excited expression as she urged the next victim to step onto the stage…