Demon King – Chapter 761 – The Demon Lord with a Tiny Appetite

“Mommy, I already ate dinner…”

Sitting at the dining table, Eiru stared at the huge clay pot of soup on the table and held her little belly, looking troubled.

“That won’t do. The doctor said you need to nourish your body properly. This soup was specially made for you. Drink as much as you can. And remember to absorb it well. Don’t just break everything down.”

“Wuu…”

Weighing her pitifully small appetite, Her Majesty the Demon Lord shot Yuki a pleading look for help. In return, she got him pretending not to notice, whistling as he turned his face away.

It was obvious that at least when it came to nourishing her body, Yuki was firmly on his mom’s side. Since certain unspeakable “super nourishing methods” couldn’t be used on this girl yet, eating properly had become the best option.

With an adult standing behind her and watching, Eiru felt immense pressure. She could only lift her bowl and start gulping the soup down, glug glug glug. Before long, her embarrassingly tiny stomach began declaring surrender.

“Mommy… I can’t drink anymore…”

“This is only one and a half bowls. And you haven’t even touched the meat.”

Hearing that pitiful tone that didn’t sound fake at all, Ning Xin glanced at the bowl in Eiru’s hands, genuinely shocked by her appetite.

“You said you had pasta tonight. You should get hungry easily from that. Li Yuki! Did you give her snacks?”

“Huh? I gave her a bag of chips before you came back…”

Yuki answered without thinking, then immediately realized he had screwed up. Sure enough, the moment Ning Xin heard that, her face darkened.

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“Less snacks, more proper meals. Those snacks have no nutrition at all. What you lack the most right now is nutrition. Nutrition! From now on, without my permission, Yuki, you are not allowed to give her snacks. Got it?”

“Eh? Eh?!”

No more snacks in the future? That announcement instantly threw the little Demon Lord into a panic. No more things to munch on? For someone as gluttonous as her, wasn’t that pure torture?

Because her family had rarely controlled her and because she loved eating, Eiru had long developed the bad habit of not eating proper meals and constantly relying on snacks to fill her mouth.

Since everything she ate would be completely broken down anyway, there was practically no difference between snacks and proper meals for her. Aside from when she set an example for her younger sister and behaved at the table, her mealtimes were almost always irregular. Using snacks as meal replacements in a “mom would beat me if she knew” style operation was practically routine.

Yuki had scolded her about it before, but since he couldn’t really control her, he eventually stopped bothering. After all, Eiru insisted that everything she ate was the same anyway. Before the doctor came to his conclusions from her medical examination, he had honestly believed that nonsense.

So now the little Demon Lord was suffering and happy at the same time. She had met a loving elder who filled the childhood gap hidden deep in her heart. But as everyone knew, discipline from elders was also a form of “love.” And of course, that kind of love was unavoidable.

“OK, no problem… Lu Brat, you need to eat fewer snacks from now on.”

Yuki immediately echoed his mom’s demand. Seeing Eiru puff her cheeks in dissatisfaction, he even threw her a look full of schadenfreude.

“Mommy, I want snacks… Don’t ban them, okay?”

Making full use of her loli advantage, the little Demon Lord gently tugged at Ning Xin’s sleeve and began her instinctive cute-and-acting-spoiled performance.

“Alright, alright. I really can’t do anything about you. You want snacks, huh? You greedy little foodie?”

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Unexpectedly, Ning Xin didn’t lecture her further. She smiled and relented quickly, reaching out to pinch the silver-haired loli’s cheeks and tugging them lightly.

Just as Her Majesty the Demon Lord thought this elder was the soft-hearted type who could be conquered through cuteness alone, Ning Xin continued the rest of her sentence with a smiling face.

“Then drink this whole pot of soup, and Mommy will reward you with snacks, okay?”

“Huh? The whole pot?”

Eiru froze on the spot and turned to look at the clay pot that was bigger than her own head.

“Mommy, you’re not joking, right? There’s no way I can finish that!”

“You can’t finish it, and you still want snacks? What’s more important, proper meals or snacks? You’re already sixteen. You can’t even tell the difference?”

Ning Xin reached out and directly grabbed the tip of the little girl’s pointed ear. The smile from before vanished as her expression turned stern in an instant, like a dramatic face change in an opera.

“Mommy! Mommy! It hurts! Don’t pull my ear! I was wrong! I was wrong!”

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Holding her tiny belly and letting out satisfied burps, Eiru didn’t even dare to sit down now. She could only lean against the back of the sofa, her expression full of resentment.

“Little Eiru, it’s getting late. Why don’t you stay here tonight?”

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Since her daughter had obediently drunk as much of the soup as she could, Ning Xin’s face had returned to that doting, smiling expression. While persuading her to stay, she was already holding a quilt and starting to make preparations.

“Your dad isn’t coming back tonight. You can sleep with Mommy, or share a room with Xueli… Oh right, you were raised as a boy.”

After thinking about it, Ning Xin figured that with Eiru’s more boyish mindset, she might not be used to sleeping with girls. It might be more appropriate to arrange a separate room for her.

“How about this. Little Ki, you sleep on the sofa. Let Little Eiru have the room.”

“Huh?”

Yuki, who had just been shot for no reason, jumped up.

“Mom, I’m your biological son! You’re making me sleep on the sofa?”

“Hmph, you little brat. You think I don’t know what you’re thinking? You want to sleep in the same room as her, don’t you? Even if you two are dating, it’s still not appropriate for a lone boy and girl to stay overnight in the same room!”

“Tsk… Mom, it’s not like we’ve never slept togeth—”

Yuki didn’t even finish his sentence before a sharp pain at his waist cut him off. Turning his head, he saw his little girlfriend blushing furiously as she pinched his waist hard.

‘Are you trying to get yourself killed? You dare say anything out loud…’

That was exactly what her flushed face seemed to say. Only then did Yuki realize how badly he had misspoken.

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A shadow suddenly loomed over him. He turned his head and met his mother’s gloomy face.

Only Officer Li knew about the fact that they had spent nights alone together and had chosen not to say anything. Ning Xin had absolutely no idea.

“So you’ve slept together before? And you were hiding it from me? Explain yourselves honestly. What exactly have you two done? Not a single detail left out!”

No matter what, they were still just high school students. If her son had really failed to control himself and taken advantage of the girl’s naivety to go all the way, Ning Xin might actually slap him and scold him thoroughly.

“Mom! No! We didn’t score, really didn’t score! Don’t misunderstand! Before she’s an adult, I absolutely won’t touch her. I swear to the heavens!”

“So the moment she’s an adult, you’ll make your move?”

“Mom, that’s what you said, not me…”

“You still dare talk back?”

Furious, Ning Xin reached out and grabbed Yuki’s mouth at the corners, tugging hard.

Off to the side, the little Demon Lord covered her crimson face. Even though Yuki hadn’t spelled it out, recalling what the two of them had actually done still made her want to dig a hole in the ground and bury herself.