Demon King – Chapter 926 – Shifting the Blame

“I’m not someone who likes trouble. But if someone refuses a toast only to drink a forfeit, then that’s a different story.”

Although they had known each other for quite some time and Gao Xuenan had heard plenty of negative rumors about Yunxing, facing his icy gaze at such close range for the first time still made her heart tremble.

“Are you insane? This has nothing to do with me. Your sister got hooked and kept by a man. Instead of going after that guy, you’re coming after me?”

Nervous as she was, her arrogance still pushed her to snap back. And in order to protect herself, she even resorted to shifting the conflict and pinning it on someone else.

“I was just scaring her. What benefit would it bring me if it really got spread around? You, on the other hand, instead of dealing with the root of the problem, you’re trying to silence me, the one who knows about it? If you care so much about your sister, then go find trouble with that pretty boy. He got dumped by me and turned around to chase your sister. It’s not like I told him to keep her.”

She smoothly redirected the source of the conflict onto Jixian. In truth, Gao Xuenan had always been extremely annoyed that her former pursuer had gone to chase a girl she disliked.

‘Even if I gave him up myself, you, Yunyue, don’t get to benefit from it. Let your brother go offend that sucker. The two of you will fall out too. With your personality, Yunyue, your relationship with your brother will definitely…’

Pleased with her plan of killing two birds with one stone, Gao Xuenan inwardly praised herself. This way, everyone who cared about Yunyue would gradually distance themselves from her.

‘Wait, no. There’s still that loli. No idea why those two are so close. I’ll deal with that later.’

Seemingly finding her words reasonable, Yunxing frowned, then loosened his grip around her neck.

“I only do what I think is right. If that guy really has a problem, I’ll deal with him myself. It’s not your place to point fingers.”

“Oh please. ‘Someone like me’? I’ve got good grades and I’m recognized by teachers and classmates as a good student. Since when does a street punk like you get to talk like that?”

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Faced with her mockery, Yunxing didn’t argue back. Even though he knew exactly what kind of person she was, in the eyes of others she truly did have a good image. He didn’t have much ground to refute her.

“I’ll warn you one last time. Stay away from her. If I find out you did anything to her again, you know what’ll happen.”

Throwing down the threat, Yunxing left without looking back.

Behind him, the person completely unfazed by his warning continued jeering with a mocking smile.

“Don’t say I didn’t remind you. A teenage boy keeping a girl in his house… claiming she’s just helping manage the place. Privately though, heh heh heh.”

Though his steps didn’t slow, Yunxing still frowned.

If it were anyone else saying this, he might not have taken it seriously. But it just had to come from Gao Xuenan.

As one of the few people who knew her true nature, Yunxing also knew how many boys she kept dangling on a string behind the scenes.

Every word from someone that scheming deserved to be doubted threefold. Still, he had to admit that when it came to understanding how boys thought, her insight carried weight.

As for Gao Xuenan, whether Yunxing believed her or not didn’t really matter. As long as she planted a seed of doubt in his mind, her goal was already achieved.

After Yunxing left, she didn’t linger either and soon departed as well.

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But none of the three who had been present, including Yunyue, realized that two pairs of eyes had witnessed everything from start to finish.

“So, Lu Brat, what you wanted to confirm was the relationship between the three of them?”

Up on the rooftop, Yuki asked the silver-haired loli lying on his back. Because of the distance, he couldn’t possibly hear what they were saying below, so he was still completely clueless about what had happened.

After asking the question, he waited a long time for his girlfriend’s reply.

Instead, the steady sound of breathing from his back made black lines crawl across his forehead.

“You fell asleep?! You dragged me up here just to sleep?!”

“Guu?! Ah!”

Startled out of her light sleep, the little Demon Lord let out an adorable yelp.

“Huh? What’s wrong? Is it time to eat?” The drowsy loli looked around blankly. Only after a while, when she saw Yuki’s speechless expression, did she remember the situation.

“They’re done?”

Her Majesty the Demon Lord leaned her head out to look downstairs and saw that everyone had indeed left.

“Ah, Stupid Yuki’s back was too comfortable. I accidentally fell asleep. So what happened just now? Tell me?”

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Speechless as he was, Yuki still recounted everything he had seen in detail.

During the explanation, he learned something even more exasperating. The loli had fallen asleep the moment Yunxing first grabbed Gao Xuenan by the collar.

So she hadn’t seen anything from the very beginning.

“Well, actually, the moment I saw those two together, I already knew the answer~”

What the little Demon Lord wanted to confirm was nothing more than Yunxing’s true attitude toward his sister.

The moment Yunxing received information from Eiru and then went to investigate the culprit on his own, it already proved Yunyue’s position in his heart.

When she saw Yunxing and Gao Xuenan appear together, Her Majesty the Demon Lord had already gotten her answer.

‘Damn it. Another dead tsundere. Do people these days not know how to just talk things out properly?’

“Still, he’s got some skills. With just a bit of vague information from me, he managed to track down Gao Xuenan on his own.”

Resting her little head on Yuki’s shoulder, the Demon Lord narrowed her eyes. She had gained a slightly better impression of Yunxing.

But making Yueyue sad is still something I’ll settle with you later.

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“So now our investigation finally has a lead. If he cares about Yueyue that much, then without a very important reason, he would never willingly hurt her feelings.”

‘I don’t see much of a lead at all. Any real progress on why he’s hanging around with those hooligans?’

Yuki grumbled inwardly. That loli’s methods were sometimes incomprehensible, but she always delivered results. Out of habitual trust, he didn’t say anything.

“Actually, although Qianmeng and Qianchen said they don’t know much about Yueyue’s past or family, I still got a bombshell piece of information~”

When she first heard it, even Her Majesty the Demon Lord had been shocked beyond belief.

And after hearing it from her mouth, Yuki also showed a look of disbelief.

Gao Xuenan and Yunyue had once been the best of best friends.

Translator Note

Somehow I have a hunch that the sideplot this time would end up shipping Jixian and Yunyue… Sigh…