Lan Ziye gave her a comforting look and motioned for her to continue.
The fish demon took a deep breath and said, "My husband died to protect me and my child. After I gave birth, I killed the demon catcher. Unfortunately, when I went back to see the child, I found that he was dead too!"
"It is not easy for children of the human and demon races to survive!" Lan Ziye comforted.
"Yes! I understand the logic, but in order to let my child survive, when I found out I was pregnant, I started looking for essence stones that could replenish the demon's spiritual power, especially top-grade essence stones. I know that as long as there are top-grade essence stones, my child will have a chance of survival. You don't know how much I have suffered for this glimmer of hope, but in the end... I didn't expect that I would prepare top-grade essence stones but failed to save my child's life!" The fish demon said here, his tone full of grief.
"Is that essence stone the purple essence stone you gave to Youyou?" Lan Ziye asked.
The fish demon nodded and continued, "So when I saw Youyou being placed next to a trash can, I couldn't understand why anyone would want such a cute, delicate child? How could those parents bear to do that?"
Lan Ziye asked in surprise, "Trash can? Didn't they say it was for distant relatives?"
The fish demon sneered, "You will never know how selfish people can be!" After a pause, he continued, "After bringing Youyou home, I felt that I needed to help Youyou find her relatives, so I made a special effort to inquire in the village. It turned out that Youyou was a child abandoned by the old Zhao family, a farmer at the head of the village. The old Zhao family had no shortage of children and did not want this child, but Youyou's grandmother insisted on giving the child to the Zhao family to raise, and even gave them money for milk powder. The Zhao family accepted Youyou for the sake of the money. But after her grandmother left, they turned around and abandoned the child!"
"I am a demon. I know very well that this human child will not have a stable life or a complete family with me. So I had no choice but to find the farmer again and force him to accept the child. At the same time, I also settled down in the village to take care of this child who is destined to be with me." said the fish demon.
"Although the farmer took Youyou in, he was not good to her. So when her biological mother came to me and asked me if she wanted to go with her biological mother, I supported her and her biological mother to leave without much thought. I didn't expect... I didn't expect that this decision would be Youyou's death warrant!" said the fish demon hatefully.
"Did you kill Zhang Jian and the others?" Chu Xixuan asked in a deep voice.
The fish demon glanced at Chu Xixuan and smiled helplessly, "Zhang Jian is probably the only person in the world who treats Youyou well! He treats Youyou as his own daughter and treats you even better than her biological mother. Youyou also likes Zhang Jian very much. She often excitedly tells me that she has the best father in the world. How could I possibly kill him?"
"Oh, right, the purple essence stone I gave to Youyou, you gave it to Zhang Jian and her heartless mother as a gift! Youyou has nothing, and she considers the essence stone I gave her her only precious treasure. Can you imagine the anticipation of a child joyfully giving what she considers the best thing to her parents?" The fish demon said, "Youyou longs for a home more than any other child! How could I possibly destroy that?"
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