I Thought I Was an Orphan, but It Turns Out I’m a Demon?

“I’m dead?”

Jian Xiaocheng froze for a moment, then shook his head. “I’m not dead yet. It’s just that nobody there needed me anymore, so I didn’t feel much like living.”

That one sentence left Lu Yanxin and Jian Yan speechless. They looked at each other, both feeling a pang of sympathy.

Their child had grown up so much, yet somehow he felt that nobody needed him...

“I heard the System say you had a boyfriend?”

Jian Yan scratched his head and cautiously asked the question. As soon as he finished, his son suddenly began to cry.

Calling it crying was a bit of a stretch. He simply let tears roll down his expressionless face, and only realized he was crying once they blurred his vision.

The two first-time parents scrambled to wipe away his tears, apologizing over and over.

“We won’t ask anymore. We won’t ask, okay? Don’t cry, sweetheart...”

Jian Xiaocheng took hold of their hands as they kept wiping at his face. He showed little emotion.

“I don’t know what it means to like someone. Could you teach me?”

“Well...”

Lu Yanxin was at a loss. She was a rebellious cautionary tale herself. How could she presume to teach her heartbroken son?

Jian Yan shook his head and sighed, then led Jian Xiaocheng toward their room.

“Let’s go inside and rest first. Once you’ve rested, we’ll tell you.”

“And besides, it’s not true that nobody needs you.”