Xiao Jiu finally calmed down, and her expression changed.
He spoke to Zero as if reminiscing about the past—
"Before I met my master, I was just an innocent boy who had never experienced the world."
"I have never seen you before, Master, nor do I know you."
"I am just an ordinary teenager. In a cruel and competitive place like the Upper Realm, I would not have been able to survive."
"But your arrival, Master, while not completely changing the situation, has certainly adjusted people's lifestyles..."
“In the past, demons and humans were unruly and often fought each other. Or demons would devour humans at will, and humans would slaughter demons, and so on.”
"This unfair situation came to an end the moment you came out."
"You divided demons and humans into two sides and made them sign a pact. The pact is for a period of one thousand years. During this one thousand years, they will not interfere with each other."
"There was a thousand-year pact that humans and demons could finally put aside their hatred for a while. But then, a demon fell in love with a human woman."
"Everyone says that humans and demons are destined to be apart. Naturally, they wouldn't have a good ending. But the two fell in love and decided to elope to a place where no one lives."
"The good times didn't last long, or perhaps it was fate playing tricks on them, but the human woman was unable to conceive for a long time."
"The demon husband advised his wife not to care too much about these things. But the human woman felt that they truly loved each other and wanted to keep their child."
"Then one day, the human woman quietly left their secluded place. Not long after, she discovered that she was pregnant."
"Pregnancy is a good thing. But the problem is that the child in the woman's belly is a demon. Before the child was even born, it kept absorbing its mother's nutrients, causing the woman to become emaciated and unrecognizable before she was three months pregnant."
"The demon husband couldn't bear to see his wife suffer any longer, so he tried to persuade her to abort the child. But his wife strongly objected."
"The husband was helpless and could not go against his wife's wishes. He could only search the world for rare and precious herbs to replenish his wife's blood and energy."
"His wife is practically on the verge of death from the effects of medicine."
"On the day of delivery, the midwives who came to see the pregnant woman were terrified and ran away. At that time, she was just a skeleton. If it weren't for her faint breathing, anyone who saw her would have thought she was a corpse, or rather, a long-standing, solidified corpse..."
"And then what?"
Zero asked.
Xiao Jiu took a deep breath and continued:
"Later, the child was born, and the child's mother died at that moment."
"The husband was filled with mixed emotions of sorrow and joy. He had originally intended to follow his wife in death. But seeing the child crying and being ignored by everyone, he finally made up his mind. From that moment on, the child became his only hope for survival."
"His good fortune didn't last long. He had no idea how to take care of a child. But the child's appearance was exactly like his, and it was obvious at a glance that he was a demon. He wanted to use his transformation magic to make the child look like an ordinary human child, but as soon as the magic was applied, in just a moment, the child turned into a demon again."
"He had no choice but to stay in that isolated place and raise his child on his own."
Finally, one day, the child grew up. He asked his father curiously, "Are there only two of them in the whole world?"
His father patted his head and finally decided to tell him the truth.
At that moment, the seed buried deep in the child's heart sprouted.
His father told him that his mother was human and did not look like them. He wanted to know what his mother looked like, so he decided to sneak out to see the outside world.
His first attempt to sneak out failed, and he was lectured for a long time. But this did not extinguish the fire in his heart; on the contrary, he wanted to go out and see the world more and more.
He begged his father to let him go out, but his father refused, saying that "humans and demons are different, and he would be killed if he went out."
He said angrily:
'Weren't you and Mother also destined to be different, one human and one woman?'
That was the first time he had ever seen his father get angry.
It was also the first time I had ever seen my father cry.
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