Sitting on the sofa, Li Sheng took a few big steps forward and picked up the little one who was standing on the floor.
After holding him, he dressed him in the small clothes that had just been dried.
The little clothes had a few holes in them.
Right now, Feng Yuan was drowsy and hadn’t noticed.
Being held in Li Sheng’s arms, he quickly finished peeing.
“Big Daddy.”
After finishing, Feng Yuan leaned against Li Sheng’s solid chest. As he yawned, tiny tears sparkled at the corners of his eyes. In a soft, sleepy baby voice, he asked, “Why haven’t you gone to sleep yet?”
Li Sheng said, “I’ll sleep right away.”
Feng Yuan said, “Oh.”
His little head, so sleepy it could barely turn, slowly moved for two seconds.
Then he thought of how there was only a sofa in the living room, no bed.
“Big Daddy, do you want to sleep on a bed?”
Feng Yuan was being supported by Li Sheng’s big hand under his little bottom, hanging against his chest, with both small hands tightly wrapped around Li Sheng’s neck.
Li Sheng said calmly, “You’ll sleep on the bed with Dad. I’ll sleep on the sofa.”
Feng Yuan blinked.
He looked at the big bed inside the bedroom, waved his little hand, and said, “Big Daddy will sleep on this one!”
“Yuan Yuan is small, Big Daddy can sleep, too. There’s enough space.”
Feng Yuan invited Big Daddy to sleep together, but Big Daddy said it wasn’t appropriate.
“When your Dad wakes up and sees me in the bed, his mood won’t be good.”
Li Sheng’s tone was calm as he stated the fact. After saying this, he added, “The sofa may be a bit hard, but sleeping one night on it is still no problem.”
Feng Yuan: “!”
His little ears immediately caught the key words: “sofa hard”.
Hugging onto Li Sheng, he wouldn’t let him leave.
“Dad’s mood will be good!”
Still clinging onto Li Sheng like a little koala, Feng Yuan seriously promised in his milky voice, “When Dad wakes up, Yuan Yuan will kiss him, then his mood will be good.”
With Feng Yuan’s insistent invitation, along with his clingy refusal to let go, in the end, Li Sheng reluctantly lay down on the bed.
Feng Yuan lay in the middle with Big Daddy on the left and Dad on the right.
He was so excited that all his earlier drowsiness was gone.
His chubby little hands touched Big Daddy, then touched Dad. In the dark of the night, he burst out giggling.
Li Sheng: “……”
Li Sheng turned slightly to the side, his big hand covering Feng Yuan’s eyes.
“Close your eyes. Sleep.”
“Mm!”
Feng Yuan agreed readily, but after quite a while, his curled, trembling eyelashes were still brushing against the palm covering his eyes.
Li Sheng had no choice but to move away the big hand covering him. “What will it take for you to sleep?”
Feng Yuan’s chubby little face was obedient: “I want to hear a story.”
Li Sheng: “Alright.”
Li Sheng picked up his phone, searched for a fairy tale, and read it to him.
The fairy tale was childish, yet Li Sheng’s voice was low and magnetic.
In the night, it flowed quietly through the room.
No one knew how much time had passed before Li Sheng heard Feng Yuan beside him start to snore softly.
He reached out and touched Feng Yuan’s chubby little foot.
Before getting into bed, Feng Yuan’s plump little feet had been icy cold, but now they had warmed up again.
The custom-made bed from Yu Yi was indeed of good quality.
In the darkness.
Li Sheng’s gaze moved past Feng Yuan and landed on Feng Qi.
Their earlier voices hadn’t woken Feng Qi.
From beginning to end, Feng Qi had been sleeping soundly.
Li Sheng stayed silent for a moment. When Feng Yuan’s little head burrowed over, his big hand instinctively patted the chubby little one’s back. After that, he too closed his eyes.
From childhood until now, Li Sheng had always slept alone.
Now, he was holding a little one in his arms, with a grown one lying beside him.
Strangely enough, he didn’t feel that his space was being invaded at all.
That night, he even slept more comfortably than ever before.
The next morning.
Feng Qi was the first to stir.
Still half-asleep, before even opening his eyes, his hand instinctively reached to the side. He was used to sleeping with Feng Yuan. In the mornings, he would always first check if Feng Yuan was still under the covers.
The little one loved to kick off the blanket. Sometimes, his sleeping posture wasn’t very good.
On his second reach, Feng Qi touched a trace of warmth. He turned over, kept feeling with his hand, and pressed his face closer.
“Yuan Yuan.”
He murmured, just like on so many other mornings, kissing his precious little one.
But the moment his lips touched, Feng Qi sensed something was off.
The place he kissed wasn’t soft and fluffy. It felt somewhat cold and firm.
His eyes flew open in shock. The next second, his gaze collided with Li Sheng’s deep, fathomless eyes.
At this moment, his thin lips were still pressed against Li Sheng’s cheek.
The two of them locked eyes. It was as if even the air had frozen.
For a moment, neither of them moved first.
Until Feng Yuan, who had been lying across Li Sheng’s waist, poked out his little red, flushed face from under the blanket. Seeing his two daddies kissing, his eyes suddenly widened.
“Wah.”
Feng Yuan opened his mouth in shock and exclaimed, “Dad is kissing Big Daddy!”
Exposed by his son’s words, Feng Qi abruptly pulled back.
He looked at his son, then at Li Sheng, whom he had just mistaken for his son and kissed. No matter how calm and composed he usually was, right now even the tips of his ears were burning red.
“Feng Yuan!”
The always good-tempered Feng Qi picked up his son and started questioning him: “Why is he in the bed? Did you tell him to come sleep here?”
Feng Yuan nodded. “Yuan Yuan told Big Daddy to sleep on the bed.”
After admitting it, he peeked at his Dad’s expression, his mouth starting to tremble.
“Dad, Big Daddy sleeping on the sofa is so pitiful.”
“The bed is big. It can fit Big Daddy!”
This whole explanation from Feng Yuan didn’t soften Feng Qi’s expression one bit.
He lifted his gaze, eyes sharp as they bore into Li Sheng.
The sofa outside already looked like it was of very high quality, surely not cheap. How pitiful could it really be to sleep on that kind of sofa?!
In that instant, Feng Qi even suspected that Li Sheng had deliberately played the “pitiful card” to squeeze onto the bed and get close to him.
But when he thought about it, that seemed impossible.
He and Li Sheng had only come into contact a handful of times. Although they had Feng Yuan between them, when it came to the past, neither of them remembered a thing.
With no memory of old ties, even if Li Sheng did squeeze onto the bed, it was probably just for the sake of a comfortable sleep, not because he wanted to sleep with him.
After working this out, Feng Qi’s expression eased slightly.
He had Feng Yuan stand properly in front of him, then carefully examined the little one’s face.
“How did you transform?”
“I don’t know.”
Feng Yuan truly didn’t know why he had transformed.
He only remembered feeling hot all over, and then, he transformed.
Feng Qi cast a glance at Li Sheng, fully aware in his heart that Bai Ze’s words from back then had come true.
Feng Yuan, by his father’s side, really did benefit in transformation.
And not only transformation, Feng Yuan, this little phoenix, was still missing many abilities a phoenix ought to have mastered. For example, all phoenixes could breathe fire.
But his Feng Yuan, already three years old, still couldn’t spit out even the tiniest spark.
Now that Li Sheng was here, perhaps all of this would finally begin to improve.
“Dad, there’s a hole.”
While being examined by his Dad, Feng Yuan noticed the tear in his clothes. His chubby little face froze, and he poked the hole with his finger to show Dad: “Yuan Yuan’s clothes have a hole.”
Feng Qi touched his clothes and coaxed gently, “If it’s torn, then don’t wear it anymore. Wear something else.”
“But Yuan Yuan only has this one little yellow-duck shirt.”
Feng Yuan’s small face drooped in disappointment, his milky voice dragging with grievance. He really liked this short-sleeved shirt with a cartoon little yellow duck printed on it.
Sitting beside them, the culprit who had washed the little yellow duck shirt until it tore let his gaze sweep briefly over Feng Yuan’s cheap clothing.
He spoke calmly: “After breakfast, I’ll take you to buy clothes.”
The largest shopping mall in the city center just so happened to belong to the Li family.
On the third floor of the mall, an entire level was dedicated to children’s products—clothes, shoes, toys, and even a children’s playground.
On the second floor, it was an entire level of men’s wear.
The moment Li Sheng mentioned buying clothes, Feng Yuan’s eyes instantly lit up.
He cheered loudly, stretched out his chubby little hand, and gestured: “Yuan Yuan wants to buy two clothes, one little yellow duck and one Ka Tu Tu.”
Li Sheng: “What is Ka Tu Tu?”
Feng Yuan shouted super loudly: “It’s a little dinosaur! He can’t find his mommy and daddy; it’s so hard for him.”
As he talked about the little dinosaur Ka Tu Tu from the cartoon, Feng Yuan gradually put himself into the story.
“Luckily, Yuan Yuan has Dad and Big Daddy.”
If he were like Ka Tu Tu, with no parents, wandering all alone—
He would definitely be very sad.
A child’s emotions were always sunny one moment, cloudy the next. Feng Qi was already used to it.
He got up from the bed, planning to take a shower: “Li Sheng, do you have clothes? Lend me one.”
Li Sheng: “……”
Li Sheng: “Wait a moment.”
He opened the wardrobe in the bedroom, pulled out a brand-new shirt still with the tag on, and handed it to Feng Qi.
Feng Qi took it and went into the bathroom to shower.
The bathroom here was also made of frosted glass. Li Sheng could clearly see Feng Qi’s silhouette and even his movements.
Feng Qi had taken off his clothes and was standing under the showerhead, rinsing.
His slender frame, under the misty steam of the bathroom and outlined through the frosted glass, revealed such elegant lines that even one extra glance felt like desecration.
Li Sheng only swept a glance before quickly shifting his gaze away.
He carried Feng Yuan to sit by the bed and helped him put on his little shoes.
The little shoes were a bit dirty. The toe was worn through, exposing his tender, white, chubby toes.
Li Sheng fell silent as he looked.
Last night, he had only been surprised by Feng Yuan’s sudden appearance. He hadn’t noticed right away the cheap clothes and worn-out shoes the boy was wearing.
As for Feng Yuan, he didn’t think there was anything wrong with his shabby little shoes.
He kicked his chubby little feet, happily chattering to Li Sheng about buying clothes.
He had never gone to a big mall to buy clothes before.
Listening to his excited milky voice, a trace of complexity flashed through Li Sheng’s eyes.
Soon after.
Feng Qi finished his shower and came out. Li Sheng carried Feng Yuan, and together with him, they went to have breakfast.
The banquet venue also included breakfast service.
Feng Yuan, faced with the delicious breakfast, simply couldn’t stop eating.
In the end, it was Feng Qi who pulled him over, touched his little belly, and declared his breakfast over.
“This little tummy is already round and full. You can’t eat any more. If you keep eating, you’ll just end up throwing up.”
Saying this, Feng Qi placed the chubby-bellied little one down on the floor, not allowing him to continue eating.
Li Sheng turned his face slightly, seeing Feng Yuan staring longingly at the rice bowl. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Feng Qi, expressionless, expose Feng Yuan’s habits.
“Don’t look at him. He has no sense at all about his own appetite. Ever since he was little, when I fed him milk, he would insist on drinking until he was stuffed, until he spat it back up, before he’d finally let go.”
After exposing his son’s little secret, Feng Qi frowned, his gaze thoughtful as he looked toward Li Sheng: “When it comes to food, I’ve never been greedy. This gluttonous look of his, who did he inherit it from?”
Li Sheng: “……”
Li Sheng, with a natural motion, pushed aside the two empty plates in front of him. His voice was calm as he said, “Gluttony isn’t necessarily inherited. Maybe it’s just his nature.”
Feng Qi cast him a glance, said nothing, and just unhurriedly finished his breakfast.
After breakfast.
Feng Yuan clung tightly to Feng Qi’s leg with a plop, impatiently saying: “Dad, let’s go to the mall!”
Feng Qi picked him up, then handed him over to Li Sheng: “Dad has to work. Let your Big Daddy take you.”
Feng Qi was going to the filming base, originally with the intent of tracking the traces of a malicious demon. To better follow it, he planned to find a job at the base.
Unexpectedly, the place suited him quite well.
There were plenty of people willing to hire him for photoshoots or cameo roles in crews, and they offered high pay.
He accepted those work invitations without hesitation.
When Li Sheng heard Feng Qi say he was going to work, he paused for a few seconds before finally asking, “Your body… can it handle work?”
Feng Qi: “Of course it can.”
When it came to words, Feng Qi never showed weakness.
After stating that he was going to work, he reached out to pinch Feng Yuan’s little bun-like face, then really left for work.
Feng Yuan, watching his Dad’s departing back, panicked.
“Dad, don’t go! Yuan Yuan wants Dad!”
But Feng Qi, after taking a few steps, didn’t turn back. He walked even faster.
Seeing this, Li Sheng could only hold tightly to the little one struggling restlessly in his arms.
He coaxed softly: “When your Dad gets off work later, I’ll take you to pick him up.”
“For now, let’s go buy clothes. You can even help choose some for your Dad.”
With Li Sheng’s soothing words and the task of picking clothes for his Dad assigned to him, Feng Yuan finally stopped fussing.
He sat on Li Sheng’s arm, cooperating as Li Sheng carried him out.
When the big one and the little one left, Yu Yi wasn’t around.
He had hurried back the night before, just in time for curfew.
The driver assigned to Li Sheng was a bit stunned when he saw Li Sheng holding a child in his arms.
Especially when he heard that beautiful little cub calling Li Sheng “Daddy”…
He was utterly shocked!
Still, shock was shock. The driver’s professionalism held.
Keeping his expression steady, he drove the car smoothly out.
“Big Daddy, how much money do you have? Can Yuan Yuan and Dad spend your money?”
Sitting in the back seat, Feng Yuan couldn’t sit still.
He had taken off his little shoes, stepped onto the seat, and was leaning his small body back and forth toward Li Sheng.
In the past, whenever Li Sheng sat in the car, he would either close his eyes to rest or casually pick up a magazine to flip through a few pages.
Now that he had Feng Yuan, his eyes simply couldn’t get a moment’s rest.
While keeping a close eye on Feng Yuan, who couldn’t sit still on the seat, Li Sheng replied to him: “Yes. Whatever you want to buy in the future, I’ll buy it for you.”
The wealth under Li Sheng’s name had long since accumulated into a terrifyingly large number.
And now, Feng Yuan was his son. He would also be the future owner of that number.
Not knowing yet how rich he truly was, Feng Yuan tilted his head, spread out his two chubby little hands, and tested cautiously: “Big Daddy, can your money buy Yuan Yuan ten ice creams?”
Li Sheng: “……”
The same Li Sheng who just said he’d buy Feng Yuan whatever he wanted now changed his words with a blank expression: “No.”
Ten ice creams. If this little one ate them all, he’d immediately have to be rushed to the children’s hospital.
Rejected, Feng Yuan pouted, just about to accuse Big Daddy of lying to him.
But before he could open his mouth, Li Sheng, one hand supporting his chubby waist, calmly clarified: “My money can buy an ice cream factory, but it cannot buy you ten ice creams.”
“You’d end up with a stomachache.”
Feng Yuan: “No, I wouldn’t.”
His little eyes spun as he tried to trick his dad: “You can buy ten and give them to Yuan Yuan. Then you’ll see if Yuan Yuan gets a tummy ache!”
Li Sheng: “?”
Li Sheng looked at the little one with an expression that said, Do you think your daddy is stupid?
Feng Yuan wilted under that look.
He twisted his chubby waist and pretended to look out the window.
The next second.
Plop. Without being held steady by Li Sheng, he toppled down to the floor under the car seat.
