Demon King – Chapter 765 – Pillow Talk Between Childhood Sweethearts 2

To be honest, once a question like that was asked, there was no real difference between truth and lie. With a multiple choice question that only had two options, you could just reverse the lie to get the truth.

So when Eiya suddenly said she wanted to hear the lie, she instantly pushed the atmosphere into an extremely awkward spot. Jiaqi had no idea how to answer for a moment.

“Um, could you maybe want to hear the truth instead?”

For a pure-hearted young man, Jiaqi felt this question was rather serious. He didn’t really want to mess around with a fake answer.

“Nope~ I want the lie.”

“Tch… fine, fine. I don’t have anyone I like right now. Happy?”

He tossed that line out at high speed, then helplessly turned over to face away from Eiya. If they hadn’t both been in the dark, his little childhood sweetheart would definitely have seen that his face was already completely red.

“Is that the truth or the lie?”

“Seriously? You’re trying to finish me off, huh?”

“Just confirming~”

Eiya giggled. She felt a bit regretful that she didn’t have her sister’s outstanding night vision. Missing out on his embarrassing expression was a shame.

“Then… the one you like, is it that Xixia?”

“Isn’t he a guy? What’s wrong with you?”

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“Exactly. That’s why my question was whether you have someone you like, not whether you have a girl you like.”

“Eiya!”

Jiaqi immediately flared up.

“I’m straight! If I like someone, it’ll only be a girl, thank you very much!”

“Alright alright, don’t be so fierce. Got it, got it.”

Though she didn’t know whether he could see it in the dark, Eiya waved her hand to signal she was joking.

As for who exactly it was, she didn’t plan to keep digging. Teasing him a bit was enough. No need to actually push him into a corner.

Although she had picked up plenty of her sister’s mischievous habits and prankster tendencies, at heart she was still a considerate girl. Not only that, but knowing that Jiaqi really did have someone he liked made her feel a little afraid.

Her sister was about to run off with someone else. Of her childhood companions, only the big boy lying next to her remained. And now he too had someone in his heart. In the end, the bond between the three of them would settle into their own separate destinations, leaving only her, Eiya, alone…

“Don’t worry, I won’t pry… and don’t tell me who she is either.”

Eiya tried to reassure Jiaqi, not realizing that those words also directly shut down his wavering thoughts about whether to confess. Honestly, the scene right now was pretty strange anyway. Lying on the same bed in the dark and suddenly blurting out I like you would make anyone hesitate.

Though she could be a little willful at times, Eiya not wanting to know the answer wasn’t because she was afraid that after finding out the girl’s identity, she’d run over and cause trouble. She wasn’t that unreasonable.

Back when it came to Eiru and Yuki, it was purely because she didn’t understand Yuki and was afraid her sister would get taken advantage of. Protecting her sister had been the bigger motive. She trusted that Jiaqi wouldn’t get tricked by some random girl. Unlike her sister, when it came to feelings, he wasn’t foolish to that degree.

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“But I still have to remind you properly, okay? Don’t get led around by the nose by some bad girl… like that one in my sister’s dorm, what’s his name? The one called Aunt Mu?”

(Jixian’s voice echoed in spirit form from somewhere far away. I’m called Jixian. There’s no Mu in my name. And I’m definitely not an aunt.)

“Don’t worry, he definitely won’t…”

Jiaqi turned back over again, clasped his hands behind his head, and stared at the ceiling with a silly grin… though he couldn’t see a thing.

“But what kind of girl is she? Or rather, what kind of girl do you like, Brother Jiaqi?”

In Eiya’s impression, this childhood big brother of hers was a boy who was extremely timid around girls and barely dared to interact with them. For a boy like that to suddenly have someone he liked… she wouldn’t investigate who it was, but she was still curious what kind of girl could make such a shy guy want to approach her.

“Emmmm, honestly? You know I’m pretty scared of girls. Liking a girl is practically a fantasy for me.”

“True. When you took me to the Huanglong River to play when we were kids… I remember you were super scared of that girl.”

With that reminder, Jiaqi also recalled that black history of his. Right in front of his little childhood sweetheart, under her dumbfounded gaze, he had once been chased all over the beach by a girl about his height.

Because Eiru was afraid of water, she never participated in activities by the water. After they came to Huanghai for elementary school, Jiaqi would secretly take Eiya out to play sometimes. The place they went to most was the Huanglong River, playing with sand and splashing water.

That was why, unlike her sister, Eiya still loved playing in water and was especially enthusiastic about water parks. To her, water carried the beauty of her childhood memories.

There weren’t many kids who went to play by the river, but occasionally they’d run into a few. Among them was a pair of siblings. Though they hadn’t met many times, since both groups were a “brother and sister” combo, the two pairs of kids easily ended up playing together.

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Since Jiaqi didn’t understand and was afraid of talking to girls, he mostly played with the older brother from the other pair. And shy Eiya, as Jiaqi’s little tagalong, stayed glued to him. The one left out was naturally the unlucky little sister from the other side.

So she got angry. She felt Jiaqi had snatched away both her brother and another girl who could have been her playmate. She especially loved chasing him down and trying to “kill” him, driving him to run all over the sandy shore.

“It’s been too long. I don’t remember the siblings’ names anymore… but we only met a few times. It’s normal not to remember.”

“I remember the little sister. I think her name was Liru… but later she…”

At this point, Eiya’s expression turned gloomy.

“What happened to her?”

“I only heard about it. On a rainy weekend, she was waiting for someone on the embankment, slipped and fell in… and in the end they never found her.” ¹ So that loli Little Ru is really a ghost after all?!

“…”

After a long silence, feeling that the atmosphere had grown too heavy, Jiaqi thought he should find another topic to break it.

“Let’s not talk about that. Back to earlier. You asked what kind of girl I like, right?”

He scratched his head with both hands, organized his thoughts, and confided a somewhat embarrassing secret from his heart to his little childhood sweetheart. Though in her eyes, it probably wasn’t a secret at all.

“With my weird personality, it’s basically impossible for me to like a girl… but your sister was an exception. Because our relationship was more like bros, so being around her felt comfortable. No overthinking, no need to act reserved.”

“So that’s why I liked your sister~ Because she was like a bro. Easy to understand, easy to get along with, easy to talk to… at least I wouldn’t freeze up and be unable to speak.”

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“So the girl you like now is a tomboy?”

From Jiaqi’s words, Eiya pieced together quite a bit of useful information. A girl who could get along with him like bros was indeed rare.

“Not exactly a tomboy. She’s a very cute girl… but she understands boys really well. Most importantly, I can talk to her normally.”

As he spoke, Jiaqi smiled knowingly and casually glanced toward the girl beside him… though he still couldn’t see anything.

“I don’t remember you knowing a girl like that…”

Eiya fell into deep thought, frantically searching her memory for such a person.

“By the way, since you’re staying over, is your sister home alone?”

“Her?”

Eiya let out a light snort.

“When I’m not at home, where else do you think she’d go? Do you think she has anywhere else to go?”

“True. That’s so like her…”