After Rebirth, I Married the Great Demon King

Chapter 17: Chapter 17 She’s Just a Poor Little Thing

Yun Shifei turned her head to look at Cheng Lie.

Meeting those pitch-black, deep eyes.

Cold, harsh, sinister, with not a trace of light.

Was it Cheng Lie who just spoke?

"You told me not to meddle in other people’s business?" Yun Shifei couldn’t help but murmur as she repeated his words.

She was genuinely surprised, as she had never heard him speak before.

Cheng Lie, however, said nothing else. He pressed his lips together and lowered his gaze to the textbook.

It shouldn’t be a hallucination, right?

But then again, it made sense. Cheng Lie’s condition wasn’t particularly severe, and autism didn’t mean he was mute. Why couldn’t he talk?

But the first words he chose to say were to tell her not to meddle?

In that moment, Yun Shifei felt an indescribable heaviness in her heart.

This boy was like a hedgehog, wrapping himself in sharp quills, defending against the world outside.

He wasn’t truly hostile; he was just trying to protect himself, wasn’t he?

earlier today,

his driver take her to the

who spoke to her, Yun Shifei wasn’t ignorant of the rules in

could the driver possibly have stepped in to

more convinced Yun

but lean closer to Cheng Lie and said to him, "I happen to

wait for Cheng Lie’s reaction and immediately

didn’t look up, and his expression remained as stoic as

the textbook, stiffened slightly and didn’t turn the page for a

to her seat, Yun Shifei realized with alarm what she had

really spoken to the future Great Demon King

she become so

glance at Cheng Lie. The boy’s gaze

wouldn’t get angry,

also felt that she

meddle. Wouldn’t it be easier for her to

all, she hated

about how he was always being bullied, she couldn’t

because she felt that their situations were somewhat

but she was still the outsider. Everyone assumed she was here to take Yun Sisi’s place, so no one welcomed her. After

Lie—although his family treated him well—was just as lonely inside, as if

they were the same kind of