"Uh... let's settle something first. Do Devils even have a concept of marriage?"
After hearing Margaret say that Becky had married a Devil, Jia Xiu's first response was to ask that question.
Because none of the pile of demon research he had read had ever mentioned demons forming families.
Although Devils had fathers and mothers and were born naturally, they truly did not have family units.
First of all, demons had exceptionally weak notions of familial affection—if anything, it was even crueler than having no family affection at all.
Because blood-related elders were generally the first targets the new generation of demons challenged after growing up, while those eliminated during their growth were their peers.
The entire demon race was one massive "Xuanwu Gate Incident."
Blood relations? What blood relations?
Fight with real blades and real guns. Whoever survived was Daddy.
Jia Xiu suspected that demons had evolved such a mindset because of their trait of not dying unless killed. There was no such thing as dying of old age, so for society to renew itself, the previous generation could only be eliminated through the most extreme means.
Moreover, the structure of marriage and family had ultimately arisen to protect and inherit private property.
Devils had no such need.
That was right. Powerful Devils possessed enormous amounts of private property, but they never considered inheritance rights.
Having children just meant creating more competitors. Why would they let their competitors inherit anything?
The ownership of a Devil's property could not be simpler. Whoever killed it last got its property. If it was killed by a group, there would probably be another round of infighting.
For that reason, demons were, in practice, a race whose brains were controlled by reproductive instinct.
Having offspring was entirely a negative return for them. So long