Demon King – Chapter 775 – Details Decide Success or Failure

“But actually, when it comes to Stupid Qi, my parents really like him. Do you know to what extent they like him?”

How would I possibly know that. Feeling speechless inside, Yuki continued carrying his lazy girlfriend who could not be bothered to walk, standing on a certain rooftop and staring at the familiar surroundings without knowing what to say.

“So why did you drag me all the way near Jiaqi’s house? Your parents went to catch your sister, and you brought me here to watch a show?”

“Bingo. Correct.”

Rubbing against Yuki’s neck, the trouble-loving little Demon Lord had a feeling a good show would happen today, so she naturally dragged him over to find a viewing angle.

“But seriously, your sister running to a grown boy’s house to sleep over. If that were my parents and they had a daughter like that, she’d probably already be locked in confinement, right?”

In Yuki’s view, no matter how close Jiaqi and Eiya were, if they were affectionate it should be like him and Eiru, secretly behind the scenes. Forget Eiru’s absurdly controlling mother. If he were a father himself and his daughter dared pull something like that, his blood pressure would definitely spike.

“Other people probably would, but Stupid Qi is hard to say. Didn’t I tell you? My parents really like him. And my dad and his dad grew up together. The two families are ridiculously close.”

It had been mentioned before that the parents on both sides had even joked about arranging a childhood engagement between Eiya and Jiaqi. At least in Eiru’s opinion, if Jiaqi really did manage to win Eiya over, both families would probably react with support more than anything else.

“Here’s something funny. Ever since they found out I’m a girl, my parents keep praising Stupid Qi in front of me. It feels like they’re trying to match us together. Seriously, it gives me a headache.”

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‘No, I think you’re just overthinking it. It’s probably just the classic comparison with someone else’s kid.’

That was what Yuki thought, though hearing the girl on his back say that also made him a little curious what kind of development was happening on Jiaqi’s side.

Meanwhile at Jiaqi’s house, someone who had dozed off for a bit still could not relax worrying about his little Childhood Sweetheart, so he opened his eyes again and sat up.

But the moment he opened his eyes, he saw Eiya holding a wet wipe and vigorously scrubbing his face. Judging from the black smudges on it, he could more or less guess what this kid had been up to.

“Ah, you’re awake? There was a mosquito on your face. Look, I’ll just…”

“Disobedient kids get locked inside a mosquito net, and when you sleep at night I’ll toss a dozen buzzing mosquitoes in there.”

“You’re so vicious!”

Eiya shuddered with goosebumps.

“And are you that bored? Catching a dozen mosquitoes?”

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“I’ll make your sister catch them. It’s not like she’s never done it before.”

Yes. Back when they were little, Eiru really had pulled the wicked stunt of tossing mosquitoes into Jiaqi’s mosquito net during summer. Fortunately, the ones she caught were all male mosquitoes that did not suck blood. Even though the noise was not that exaggerated, it was still enough to torment someone.

Thinking back on it now, Jiaqi suddenly realized something. How exactly had Eiru caught mosquitoes barehanded back then? But at that time she had probably already loli-transformed without him knowing, so having strange abilities was normal.

“Forget that. Brother Jiaqi, save me. When my parents get here later they’ll definitely ask why I secretly ran to your place.”

“Then just say we’re dating. Don’t. Don’t hit me. I’m joking. Just say that Lu Brat ran off to play and you were bored staying home alone.”

“But they don’t know you stayed here overnight anyway, so you don’t need to be this scared. Just say you came over this morning.”

Catching Eiya’s little pink punches with his palm, Jiaqi helplessly offered suggestions. He did not think things were as serious as she imagined.

“Oh right. Then let’s match our stories. We’ll say my sister ran off this morning and I was bored at home, so I came over today to play with you.”

That explanation could reduce the severity of the situation and conveniently help cover for Eiru’s side too. One story that let both sisters avoid a crisis. Perfect.

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Just as the two carefully checked and confirmed their cover story, a burst of noise suddenly came from outside. Judging from the enthusiastic greetings, a certain pair of trashy parents had probably arrived.

After a round of pleasantries, learning that the two kids were playing in the room, the adults did not plan to disturb them. They sat down in the living room, made tea, and started chatting.

“Honestly, since Little Qi’s been abroad so long, I was a little worried our two kids wouldn’t be close to him anymore. But now it seems that worry was totally unnecessary. Hahaha.”

“Yeah. We grew up wearing the same pair of pants. If our kids weren’t close, we’d probably get laughed at when we got home.”

“But you two, seriously. No matter how busy work gets, don’t neglect your kids.”

Jiaqi’s father suddenly changed the topic, his expression turning a bit serious.

“We know about Little Lu’s situation. The root cause was still that you neglected her. We work hard to earn money to give our kids good conditions and a good environment, but don’t put the cart before the horse and ignore the children themselves.”

Maybe it was because they had never needed to run around everywhere dealing with something like Eiya’s past situation. Even though Jiaqi lived alone away from home, his parents had always kept in touch with him and never neglected showing their concern.

As for Ei Yuan and Liu Wan, as friends they were honestly pretty upset. No matter how busy work was, it should not be so busy that you could not spare time to accompany your kids.

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Even if you truly could not squeeze out time, communication was so advanced now. A phone call or video chat would let the kids feel someone was there with them. There was no need to let things become like now, where even though they were not left-behind children, both daughters ended up acting like they lacked security all day.

“Changing to a bigger house is a good thing, but letting two kids live alone in such a huge place. Forget them, even adults would feel uneasy without someone around, right?”

If there were some kind of parent training class, Jiaqi’s dad really wanted to sign this good brother of his up immediately. So many things came down to details deciding success or failure. Luckily the two kids were sensible. You two really must’ve burned incense to be this blessed.

“Look. Last night both your daughters ran off. Little Lu went to who knows which classmate’s house to sleep, and Little Ya stayed home alone and got scared, so she ran to our place in the middle of the night.”

Hearing this, inside the room the two who had been pressed against the door eavesdropping on the adults’ conversation instantly changed expressions.

‘Well damn. Details really did decide success or failure. They had been so focused on matching their story in the room that they forgot about the people outside. Now great. Eiya had been sold out on the spot.’

“Brother Jiaqi.”

“I’ve got no solution. Don’t look at me. Who told you to run over in the middle of the night? Just wait for death.”