“Got thinner.”
Li Wei touched him and said firmly, “Once we’re back, I’ll nourish your body.”
Feng Yuan blinked his eyes. “Mm!”
At the training base, he actually ate pretty well.
The meals at the training base were all especially delicious. The instructor said that the cooks here were all carefully chosen.
Top-quality ingredients, top-class chefs. The food they made was absolutely delicious!
Now, Feng Yuan could even eat two bowls of rice in one meal.
The car drove fast but steadily.
With Grandpa and Auntie accompanying him, Feng Yuan’s mood was quickly soothed and lifted.
“Grandpa, Auntie, did you miss Yuan Yuan?”
Feng Yuan sat on Grandpa’s lap, but his little, chubby bare feet, with shoes taken off, rested on Auntie’s lap.
Li Wei held his chubby feet and smiled. “Of course, Auntie missed Yuan Yuan.”
To Li Wei, Feng Yuan’s appearance was a ray of warmth in her ruined life.
She had never thought that her deranged mental state could be soothed by a little cub.
“Grandpa?”
“Mm, I missed you.”
Seeing that both adults had said they missed him, Feng Yuan finally grinned contentedly.
He leaned comfortably against Grandpa and, from time to time, was even fed a grape.
There was fruit in the car.
Perhaps because he had been talking the whole way, this time Feng Yuan didn’t fall asleep in the car.
When they arrived home.
Li Heng carried him down.
Li Wei glanced at her father holding the little one, the corner of her mouth twitching slightly.
She also wanted to hold Yuan Yuan.
Before, when Li Si and Li Wang came back, she had never seen her father go to pick them up, let alone carry them.
But now, with Yuan Yuan, her father would both pick him up and carry him.
Li Wei thought about this, but it wasn’t because she felt her father was biased.
She knew very well in her heart. Those two children didn’t need to be received. What they wanted even more was their own independent space.
Only Yuan Yuan had already called them early today.
The little fellow’s voice over the phone was unbearably sticky and sweet.
In his milky tone, he reminded them loudly: “Don’t forget to pick up Yuan Yuan!”
It had already been three days since he last came home. He missed Grandpa and Auntie.
Ever since Li Wei received the call, she had been dying to go pick up the little one right away.
She endured until now, finally seeing him at last, yet still unable to hold him.
This made her feel quite resentful toward her own father.
Inside the house.
The little one who had just returned waved his tiny hand, greeting every servant he saw.
He even asked the butler to hold him for a bit.
After running around the house and playing to his heart’s content, the little fellow finally settled down.
Dinner was ready at home.
During the meal, Feng Yuan even video-called his dad.
He used Grandpa’s phone to make the call.
The screen on his smartwatch was a bit too small. When held farther away, it wasn’t convenient to see his dad clearly.
So he used Grandpa’s phone.
The phone was set up on a stand, placed on the dining table, with the camera facing right at Feng Yuan’s little face.
Clutching a spoon, Feng Yuan acted as a live eating show for his dad.
On Feng Qi’s side, he hadn’t eaten yet.
He was wearing a slightly oversized black T-shirt, smiling as he watched his precious little cub on the screen.
“Yuan Yuan, have a bite of vegetables.”
While watching, Feng Qi reminded his precious little one to eat greens.
Feng Yuan didn’t like vegetables.
His little face scrunched up. But under his dad’s gentle urging, he still picked up a chopstick of vegetables and ate it.
After just one bite of greens, he went right back to gnawing on ribs.
“Dad.”
Chewing on ribs, Feng Yuan asked, “Are you feeling better now?”
“Much better.”
Feng Qi smiled. “Yuan Yuan just needs to take good care of himself. Don’t worry about Dad.”
Father and son kept talking like that.
Li Heng and Li Wei didn’t interrupt.
When Li Wei saw Yuan Yuan’s dad on the screen, her eyes were full of amazement.
“Dad.”
Taking advantage of the moment while Yuan Yuan was speaking with his Dad, Li Wei lowered her voice and whispered in Li Heng’s ear: “Did Li Sheng bewitch Yuan Yuan’s dad? For such a beauty to actually be willing to bear him a child?!”
In her mind, Li Wei recalled Li Sheng’s face.
Her second brother was strikingly handsome, but his personality didn’t seem at all like someone who would dote on others.
Is the beauty sick in the head? To give him a child.
In that moment, Li Wei even felt a twinge of jealousy toward her cheap second brother.
A wife who was an absolute stunning beauty, and a son who was a pretty, well-behaved little cub.
Could life possibly be any more perfect than this?
“Mind your words.”
Li Heng reprimanded her in a deep voice: “Do not speak carelessly about your elder brother’s family matters.”
Li Wei: “Tch.”
Scolded, Li Wei pulled a long face and lowered her head to eat her own meal.
The time for a meal was neither long nor short.
Either way, Feng Yuan was completely satisfied just looking at his dad.
He puckered his lips at the screen and planted several kisses.
“Dad, if you miss Yuan Yuan, just watch Yuan Yuan’s videos.”
“When Yuan Yuan has a break, I’ll come back to see you!”
During the video call, Feng Yuan hadn’t shown much of his longing for his dad.
Once the call ended.
He tilted up his little face and asked Grandpa when he would have a holiday.
He missed Dad.
Even though he had a smartwatch and could contact Dad every day, this was still the first time Feng Yuan had been away from his Dad for so long.
He wanted Dad to hold him.
On the other side, after hanging up the call, Feng Qi went straight to the bedroom.
Inside the bedroom.
Li Sheng was packing things, most of which were Feng Qi’s.
Now, in the large wardrobe of the bedroom, the fewest clothes belonged to Li Sheng.
The majority were Feng Qi’s and Feng Yuan’s.
“Let me pack.”
Feng Qi stepped forward, wanting to help.
Li Sheng didn’t allow it.
He turned around, pressed Feng Qi’s shoulder, and lowered his head to kiss him.
“Sit obediently. I’ll be done soon.”
Feng Qi was pressed down to sit at the edge of the bed and could only watch him pack.
At Li Sheng’s feet was a suitcase.
The two of them were going to travel.
And their destination was abroad, the very city where Feng Yuan was.
Feng Qi had already been planning to go see his son.
During the time Feng Yuan had been away, he had sealed two beasts from the vicious-beast list.
For him now, sealing two beasts was no easy task.
If not for Li Sheng being there, he might not have even survived long enough to see Feng Yuan again.
Strange as it was, when he was gravely injured back then and no longer had the strength to seal the last beast, Li Sheng rushed over, wanting to take him away.
At that time, in his state of extreme weakness, looking at Li Sheng standing protectively in front of him, he somehow, as if compelled by fate, let his true soul attach itself to Li Sheng’s body.
And then, the last beast was beaten until it howled miserably, clutching its own head as it begged to be sealed.
After finishing off the two beasts, Feng Qi returned to his own body, closed his eyes, and fainted.
By the time he woke again, three days had already passed.
During the three days of his coma, Feng Yuan’s video calls were all handled by Li Sheng muddling through.
At that time, Li Sheng had practically kept watch over him twenty-four hours a day.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Li Sheng’s eyes were terribly red. Whether from exhaustion or from crying, he couldn’t tell.
He didn’t ask, only sighed silently in his heart.
He always kept thinking that he shouldn’t let Li Sheng grow too attached to him.
But now, things had completely slipped out of his control.
“All done.”
While Feng Qi was still distracted, Li Sheng had already snapped the suitcase shut.
He came over, pulled Feng Qi up, and kissed him again.
Feng Qi pushed away his handsome face, refusing the kiss.
But Feng Qi’s resistance didn’t succeed.
Li Sheng held his waist and still stole a wet kiss.
After the kiss, Li Sheng rested his chin on Feng Qi’s shoulder, steadying his breath for a moment.
Feng Qi had long since gone numb to his behavior of wanting to kiss him eight hundred times a day.
In this household, both the big one and the little one were kiss fanatics.
“Are you done yet? If you’re done, I want to eat.”
Their flight was at night.
Feng Qi going abroad was both for a shoot and to see his son.
“Almost.”
Li Sheng’s voice was a little hoarse. Holding Feng Qi close, he couldn’t resist rubbing against him.
Feng Qi: “…”
Feng Qi felt even more numb.
He closed his eyes, not even wanting to look at the person in front of him.
The outside world all said that Li Sheng was indifferent and frigid.
But only he knew that this man had nothing at all to do with the word “frigid”.
“If it really doesn’t work, you should go to the hospital and get some medicine.”
Feng Qi was truly afraid of him.
He had never been against intimacy between them.
But when it happened too often, it was terrifying.
Feng Qi feared that in the future, he wouldn’t die from illness, but would be done to death instead.
After calming himself for a moment, Li Sheng turned his head and bit Feng Qi’s earlobe.
Feng Qi shivered from the bite.
“Come on, let’s eat.”
Li Sheng had long since simmered the soup, the rice was cooked, and the meat dishes were already stewing. Now, only two vegetable stir-fries were left to be made.
He directly picked Feng Qi up in his arms, carried him to the dining room, and had him wait there.
Very soon.
A whole table of dishes, balanced with both meat and vegetables, was served.
Li Sheng filled a bowl of soup and handed it to Feng Qi.
As Feng Qi drank the soup and ate his meal, a faint smile returned to his face.
“Li Sheng, do you think when we go over there, Yuan Yuan will be startled?”
The two of them were going to see Feng Yuan, but they hadn’t told him in advance.
They wanted to give him a surprise.
“Whether he gets startled or not, I don’t know. But when he sees you, most likely he’ll cry.”
Li Sheng, while eating himself, also liked to feed Feng Qi a bite from time to time.
Feng Qi was used to being fed by him. When he saw the food brought over, he simply ate it.
“Mm, I figure he’ll cry, too.”
With both dads thinking about their son, their moods were quite good.
After dinner, they drove to the airport.
Meanwhile, the little one who had no idea his dads were coming had already made up his own plan.
When he had a break, he would go home!
Go home to see Dad!
Time ticked by little by little. The little one, who had been sulking from missing his dad, was coaxed back into good spirits by Grandpa and Auntie together.
At the old residence, the lights were blazing even at night.
Feng Yuan clamored to ride the sightseeing car.
When Li Heng saw that he wanted to ride the car around to play, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes.
“Auntie, Auntie, let Yuan Yuan ride it. Yuan Yuan wants to ride the car.”
Seeing Grandpa still not giving in, Feng Yuan’s little chubby hand slapped down and clung onto his aunt.
Li Wei patted his little head, her heart softening.
“Dad, I’ll take him for a little ride,” she said, picking Feng Yuan up and having the butler drive out the sightseeing car.
Aunt and nephew didn’t let anyone else accompany them.
One of them drove, the other sat in the car. Toot toot toot. They were heading down the little paths of the residence.
But Feng Yuan hadn’t clamored for the ride just to play.
He had come to do serious business.
He was inspecting the residence!
Even though Auntie had casually carried his fluffy around these past few days, there was still a faint layer of black mist lingering over her.
Sitting in the little car, Feng Yuan straightened his face.
His round eyes were opened wide, swearing to check over the whole residence.
He didn’t know how long it had been.
Looking at the pond and the trees they were passing, Feng Yuan tugged at his aunt’s sleeve.
“Auntie, stop for a bit.”
Li Wei stepped on the brakes.
Feng Yuan climbed down from the car and, with his little short legs, walked straight toward the water’s edge.
With his hands clasped behind his back, he circled the pond and the trees.
Li Wei couldn’t understand what he was doing.
After pacing back and forth for quite a while, Feng Yuan, as he walked, even made a video call to Qin Xun.
“Look!”
“Isn’t there a problem here?!”
Whether it was the information Qin Xun had sent Feng Yuan or the folklore the teacher had recently been teaching, it all included knowledge about feng shui.
The spot where Feng Yuan was standing, with water and trees, looked like it had excellent feng shui.
But here, there was a dense, heavy black mist.
Feng Yuan told Qin Xun about his discovery: “I want to dig up the tree.”
“Mm, there should be a problem,” Qin Xun agreed. “It’d be best to check under the pond as well.”
“Okay!”
Feng Yuan nodded and continued looking at the area together with Qin Xun.
Originally, Feng Yuan had wanted to spit out a little flame to burn it.
But Qin Xun stopped him.
“Burning away the black mist won’t help. What’s most important now is that you find out where this black mist is coming from.”
The two children, separated by a screen, were seriously discussing it.
When Li Wei walked over, she happened to catch a bit about burning or not burning.
“Yuan Yuan, what are you trying to do?”
“Auntie, I want to pull out the tree and open up the pond, too.”
Li Wei: “?”
Li Wei was utterly confused. “Why would you suddenly want to dig up trees and open ponds?”
“I want to see what’s under the tree and under the pond,” Feng Yuan made his request.
But Li Wei only chuckled and pinched his little face. “Yuan Yuan, that request I can’t agree to.”
“Our old residence’s design was all carefully arranged.”
“And the person who designed the residence’s layout was Grandpa’s closest friend.”
When Li Wei mentioned the person who had planned the design, her eyes were filled with respect.
That person had an excellent relationship with their family.
Hearing Auntie’s words, Feng Yuan opened his mouth slightly.
He wanted to say that there really was a problem here.
But he was just a child. The things he said didn’t necessarily carry weight.
Unable to dig up the tree or break open the pond right away, Feng Yuan lowered his little head, following his aunt back in low spirits.
At the same time, Li Si and Li Wang, the brother and sister who had already returned to their dormitory, sat in the quiet room without saying a word.
Clearly, in the past, their dorm had always been just as quiet as it was now.
But for some reason—
Li Si frowned, feeling that no matter where he looked, this dorm felt unpleasant to the eye.
“Li Wang.”
Staring at Li Wang in front of the computer, Li Si’s gaze sank. “Don’t you feel like our room is missing something?”
