Demon King – Chapter 889 – Parents’ Heart to Heart

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend again. Yuki was once more invited over to Eiru’s house as a guest. In truth, he was there to cuddle a loli.

“Yuki’s here? Come, come, have some fruit.”

Since it was the weekend, the two parents did not need to work. Seeing Yuki visit, Ei Yuan’s face was practically glowing with a smile as he warmly greeted this future son-in-law.

Unlike Eiru’s enthusiastic expression, however, Liu Wan at the side did not look nearly as pleased. Although she wore a smile as well, it looked forced no matter how one looked at it.

When she learned from Ei Yuan that her daughter was dating, this mother’s expression had first been shock, then fear, then anger.

Unlike Ei Yuan, who had calmly asked about the details right away, Liu Wan’s first reaction was whether her daughter had been tricked or harmed by some bad boy outside.

Angry, anxious, and regretful, she had almost rushed into Eiru’s room that very night to confront her face to face. To prevent the situation from spiraling out of control, Ei Yuan had tightly held onto his wife, patiently persuading and guiding her.

“You, stop being so controlling toward the child. Sometimes admitting a mistake isn’t a bad thing. We’re human too, aren’t we? Who’s perfect?”

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Ei Yuan understood his wife’s temperament. In the end, she just wanted her children to rely on and trust her. But now it seemed that this attitude had gone too far into stubbornness.

Any mistake she made in front of her children would affect their trust and reliance on her. That was why Liu Wan had maintained such an outrageously stubborn stance toward the two kids at home. I am never wrong. It’s all for your own good.

Even if she truly was wrong, she would never bow her head to admit it. In her view, once the image of being flawless in her children’s hearts was shattered, it would severely damage her authority and their trust and dependence on her.

“You know it yourself. You’re not stupid. With things having reached this point, do you really think Little Lu can still trust and rely on you? What’s the point of stubbornly maintaining that broken image?”

While soothing Liu Wan, Ei Yuan placed a hand on his lover’s shoulder and sat down with her on the bed. He was a smart man too. He knew that if he wanted to change the situation at home, merely compensating the children to ease the relationship was not enough. If he did not work through Liu Wan’s mindset, nothing would truly improve.

A person’s beliefs could not be changed with just a few words. Ei Yuan’s goal now was not to have Liu Wan accept everything at once. But at the very least, she could not continue treating the children the way she had been.

“I know. I have a lot of problems. But this is different. Little Lu is still so young. And she used to be a boy. She has no sense of scheming or protecting herself…”

“And dating? She doesn’t even have the right awareness! Isn’t that just letting someone take advantage and pick her up as a bargain? Right now I wish she’d stay far away from all male classmates!”

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“With her situation, if she runs into someone with bad intentions, she might even sling arms around them. How could she not end up at a disadvantage? Honestly, I even want to send her to an all girls school!”

The string of rapid complaints showed just how anxious this mother was. She already knew what kind of place she held in her daughter’s heart. Yet she did not dare to further provoke the child. With nothing she could do, she could only sit there venting in helpless fury.

“But in the end, isn’t the reason Little Lu turned out this way because of our negligence?”

After quietly listening to his wife’s complaints, Ei Yuan slowly stated the cruel truth for both of them, landing another heavy blow on Liu Wan’s heart.

“If we hadn’t driven her out. If we hadn’t used independence as an excuse and shown her more care while she was living alone outside. If we had brought her home earlier instead of letting her stay in the school dorm…”

There had been so many opportunities. As long as they had given the child enough, even just a little warmth for a child like Eiru who was so easily satisfied, wouldn’t she have opened her heart to the family? Would they really have failed to notice that she had become a girl?

“Don’t speak.”

Struck by those words, Liu Wan was about to argue, but Ei Yuan raised a finger to her lips first.

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“I know what you want to say. But search your conscience. We both know where the problem lies, don’t we?”

Ei Yuan had already anticipated this. He knew Liu Wan’s stubborn denial was a habit. What she wanted to say would be nothing more than something like the child never tells us anything, how could we possibly know.

If a child is unwilling to tell her family anything, isn’t that itself a sign of distrust toward them? Even if she told her brother, sister, best friends, and childhood companions everything, but still would not tell them, who was the problem really on? Did it need to be spelled out?

“No matter how stubborn your mouth is, you know the reason in your heart. In the end, you just want to shift some responsibility to ease your own conscience. That’s always been your bad habit.”

“Fix that flaw properly. Haven’t we always taught the children to be brave enough to admit mistakes and to correct them? If we make mistakes ourselves but stubbornly refuse to admit them, do you think that protects your authority, or destroys it?”

Seeing Liu Wan fall silent, Ei Yuan sighed and continued his reasoning.

“Little Lu is sixteen and Little Ya is fifteen. They’re not small children anymore. It’s not like they’ll accept everything just because you say it’s right or wrong. They already have their own sense of right and wrong.”

“As parents, we should lead by example. No matter how the children see us, at the very least we have to take responsibility and make up for our mistakes. Don’t you love them?”

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“No… husband, this is my fault, not yours.”

Under her lover’s guidance, Liu Wan reflected on herself. Covering her face, her emotions began to lose control.

“You entrusted the children to me, and I ended up raising them like this… The eldest daughter doesn’t even acknowledge me as her mother anymore. The younger one now avoids me whenever she sees me…”

“Silly wife.” Ei Yuan smiled helplessly and pulled his lover into his arms, gently stroking her head.

“Leaving them solely to you in the first place was my negligence. They are our children. If there are problems, shouldn’t we face and bear them together?”

“You don’t need to be afraid. I’ll stay with you and slowly change together. We don’t need to ask for the children’s forgiveness. At the very least, wasn’t our goal always just for the two of them to be happy?”