Moonlit: Thank you for the coffee~
Feng Yuan’s words made Yu Yi’s mind go completely blank in an instant.
At that moment, Yu Yi didn’t even dare to look at his parents’ expressions.
He only stiffly forced a smile and laughed awkwardly, saying, “Yuan Yuan, what are you talking about? Did you just wake up or something? Still a little groggy?”
“Be good. Go back and eat. Uncle will come over to play with you in a bit.”
Yu Yi said this and was about to slip away.
But Feng Yuan grabbed his leg, pressing his chubby little face against him.
“Take Yuan Yuan with you.”
His soft, childish voice was still pleading.
Yu Yi: “……”
He didn’t even need to look deliberately to feel his parents’ suspicious gazes.
He still wanted to try to salvage the situation.
But Fang Fang had already stood up: “Someone is upstairs? Xiao Yi, did you bring someone home?”
Seeing Fang Fang about to go check upstairs, Yu Yi knew there was no way to dodge it.
He could only grit his teeth and make up on the spot: “Dad, Mom, I did bring a friend home.”
“But… his situation is a bit complicated. He’s an orphan, timid, and a little introverted. When I met him, he didn’t even have enough to eat.”
“I saw he was too pitiful, so I helped him a bit.”
Most of what Yu Yi was making up here was actually true.
When he first met Wu Jin, Wu Jin really was in a terrible situation.
The guy didn’t even have an ID.
He had been tricked into going to a bar. He was told he would work as a bodyguard, but the moment he stood in the bar, he didn’t look like a bodyguard at all. He looked more like the star of the place.
Men and women alike glanced at him, eyes practically sparkling.
Wu Jin was scared stiff by all the people crowding around him.
When Yu Yi ran into him, he saw Wu Jin keeping a stern face, trying to leave. But the manager who brought him to the bar wanted him to entertain customers.
They got into a conflict, and Wu Jin knocked the guy down on the spot.
Seeing him look so fierce, Yu Yi didn’t know why, but his heart felt as if it had been struck.
He took a few steps forward and intercepted Wu Jin.
“Hey, what’s your name?”
Yu Yi started the conversation.
Even as he spoke, he was nervous inside, afraid he might also end up knocked down like the manager.
But Wu Jin didn’t knock him down.
He just stared at Yu Yi for a long while before saying his own name.
The manager, who had been knocked to the ground, was still cursing and muttering angrily.
He was complaining that Wu Jin didn’t even have enough to eat, yet acted all high and mighty.
The things the manager was saying were extremely nasty.
Yu Yi, hearing it, couldn’t stand it. He immediately pulled a stern face and shot back: “Who said he can’t get food? From now on, whatever he wants to eat, I’ll make sure he gets it!”
“I’m taking care of this person!”
After saying this, Yu Yi grabbed Wu Jin and headed outside.
And Wu Jin actually obediently followed him.
From that moment on, with Wu Jin by his side, he never left again.
Thinking of Wu Jin still upstairs, hungry and waiting, Yu Yi felt both distressed and anxious.
“Dad, Mom, Wu Jin’s background is really pitiful. This time I took the liberty of bringing him back… could you please—”
Yu Yi’s meaning was clear: he didn’t want his parents to go upstairs to see Wu Jin.
Hearing this, Fang Fang and Yu Lian couldn’t help but soften.
They sat back down, no longer thinking of going upstairs to meet Wu Jin.
But they were still a little curious: “Yuan Yuan, you know this Wu Jin, too?”
Feng Yuan nodded.
He moved his little face, which had been buried against Yu Yi’s leg, and looked back at the adults: “Wu Jin! Dad gave birth to Yuan Yuan, and Wu Jin came to comfort Yuan Yuan.”
“Wu Jin is gone, Yuan Yuan misses him.”
Feng Yuan’s innocent, childlike words made the adults start to feel a certain fondness for Wu Jin.
Wu Jin had once helped take care of the newborn Yuan Yuan…
This made the adults feel very grateful.
“All right, since he’s timid, we won’t go see him.”
“You two go upstairs and eat. Take Yuan Yuan’s meal with you.”
The adults were quite understanding and didn’t stop them from going upstairs to eat.
Frida and Fang Fang even specially prepared Feng Yuan’s meal.
Yu Yi couldn’t hold so much with both hands.
As he hesitated over whether to make two trips, Feng Yuan picked up his plate himself.
“Yuan Yuan can carry it himself!”
“Our Yuan Yuan is really amazing.”
Fang Fang watched the little one carry the plate on his own and immediately clapped.
Besides stairs, the Yu family also had an elevator.
To make it easier for Feng Yuan to walk, Yu Yi took him to the elevator.
Soon, the two of them arrived on the second floor.
With no adults around, Yu Yi lowered his head and started questioning Feng Yuan: “Yuan Yuan, how do you know Wu Jin is here? Did you see him? But that can’t be right. You didn’t even go to the second floor.”
Yu Yi was completely baffled.
He couldn’t make sense of how Feng Yuan had discovered Wu Jin.
Feng Yuan held the tray in his hands and replied slowly, “Yuan Yuan smelled him.”
Phoenixes have excellent memories.
Except for accidents like amnesia, even while still in the egg, a phoenix can form memories.
When Feng Yuan was just born, Wu Jin cared for him day and night.
That memory was something Feng Yuan could never forget.
“Smelled him?”
Yu Yi frowned, feeling that the little chubby thing was talking nonsense. “How could there be a smell on Wu Jin? He doesn’t even wear perfume.”
His Wu Jin was, after all, a very simple and genuine treasure.
“Yuan Yuan can smell it,” Feng Yuan said, then lifted his little face to look at Yu Yi and asked a question in return: “Uncle, does Wu Jin know Yuan Yuan?”
“Then why hasn’t he come to find Yuan Yuan?”
“Hmm, I’ve only told him your name. He wants to see you, but hasn’t managed to yet.”
Yu Yi explained this to him.
While they were talking, they arrived at the bedroom door.
The bedroom, as Yu Yi had requested, was locked from the inside.
Yu Yi knocked on the door and called out, “Wu Jin, open the door for me.”
His voice was a little loud.
Wu Jin, coming to open the door, had a handsome and stern face, but there was a trace of nervousness in it.
“You said… quietly,” Wu Jin repeated Yu Yi’s reminder. Seeing him so tense almost made Yu Yi want to kiss him.
“Ahem, ahem.”
Considering that there was still a three-year-old child present, Yu Yi forcibly suppressed the thought.
He said, “No need to be too quiet. My parents know you’re here. They won’t come upstairs for now.”
As he spoke, he stepped aside to make way.
He still had Feng Yuan carrying the tray!
Wu Jin was very tall, and Feng Yuan was very small.
So it wasn’t until Feng Yuan entered the room and carefully placed the tray on the table that Wu Jin noticed the little figure.
The moment he saw that small figure, Wu Jin felt as if his heart had stopped.
He held his breath, his eyes fixed intently on the tiny figure.
Finally freed from holding the tray, the little one couldn’t wait and quickly turned his small body around.
He didn’t say a word, just took a few short, determined steps, and like a tiny cannonball, launched himself into Wu Jin’s arms.
Wu Jin instinctively opened his arms and bent down to catch him.
“Wu Jin!”
“Yuan Yuan.”
At last, the big and the small recognized each other. The next second, they were both holding each other tightly.
Tears welled up in Feng Yuan’s eyes. After hugging for a long while, he finally lifted his little face.
“Wu Jin, where did you run off to? Why did you leave Yuan Yuan?”
“I never left you.”
Seeing him cry, Wu Jin’s own eyes turned red as well.
“I tried to find you, but I couldn’t.”
“Yuan Yuan, are you alright?”
Wu Jin’s feelings for Feng Yuan were no less deep than any of Feng Yuan’s own family.
Back when Feng Qi had just given birth, he was at his weakest.
Feng Yuan was tiny when he was born, so small that holding him in his hands made them shake.
At that time, he was extremely afraid he wouldn’t be able to take care of Feng Yuan.
Feng Yuan’s form could switch back and forth between his original phoenix shape and a human shape, so Wu Jin had to be constantly alert, giving his full attention to looking after him.
The first bite of rice Feng Yuan ate was fed by Wu Jin.
Feng Yuan’s first pee was also on Wu Jin.
So there was no doubt about Wu Jin’s feelings for Feng Yuan.
“Wu Jin, I’m so glad! You… why did you have to live such a miserable life?”
Earlier, when Yu Yi mentioned that Wu Jin hadn’t had proper meals, Feng Yuan had perked up his little ears and heard everything.
He hadn’t said anything at the time, but inside, he had felt terribly heartbroken.
Wu Jin was such an honest and straightforward dragon!
Coming to the human world, he probably wouldn’t even know how to scavenge for scraps.
Thinking about the hard life Wu Jin had endured, Feng Yuan pouted even more and felt like crying again.
“I… I’m not miserable.”
Wu Jin, flustered, wiped his little face while explaining, “I’m doing very well. It’s not that bad.”
Feng Yuan didn’t believe a word of Wu Jin’s explanation.
Both big and small had red eyes. Yu Yi, watching from the side, felt a pang in his teeth from how sweetly emotional the scene was.
“Alright, alright, you two crybabies. Stop crying.”
“The rice will get cold soon. Aren’t you both hungry?”
Of course, both big and small were hungry.
But they had finally reunited, and neither of them wanted to let go so quickly.
In the end, Wu Jin sat down next to Feng Yuan to eat together.
He was used to feeding Feng Yuan in the past.
The moment he sat down, he wanted to continue feeding him.
Feng Yuan wiped his nose with a tissue and then picked up his own chopsticks to eat.
Seeing that Feng Yuan could already feed himself, a hint of melancholy appeared on Wu Jin’s handsome face.
“Yuan Yuan doesn’t need me to feed him anymore.”
Yu Yi couldn’t resist kicking him lightly at the sight of his forlorn expression.
“Come on, feed me.”
Wu Jin: “……”
Still, Wu Jin carefully fed him the rice he had stirred with a spoon.
Feng Yuan stared in astonishment.
He was three years old and didn’t need adults to feed him anymore.
How could Uncle Yu Yi, such a grown-up, still need someone to feed him?!
Feng Yuan was utterly shocked.
Yu Yi, not wanting to be too affectionate with Wu Jin in front of the child, took just a couple of bites, more as a gesture to appease Wu Jin, and then ate on his own.
There was no rule at the dining table about “eat in silence, speak only at bedtime”.
Feng Yuan ate while talking to Wu Jin.
“Wu Jin, come home with me.”
The moment Feng Yuan spoke, he wanted to take Wu Jin home.
The crucial thing was that Wu Jin actually hesitated.
Just as it seemed Wu Jin was about to nod in agreement, Yu Yi hurriedly kicked him under the table.
Wu Jin looked up at Yu Yi after being kicked.
Yu Yi glared at him and asked, “You don’t want to stay here?”
Wu Jin: “……”
Of course, Wu Jin wanted to stay here.
He didn’t want to let Yu Yi out of his sight for even a second.
But Yuan Yuan missed him, too.
“Yuan Yuan has to go back. He still has training. He can’t focus on you.”
“If you two want to see each other, you can just make an appointment. We’re not that far away.”
“You don’t need to go straight to the Li family’s place.”
Yu Yi repeated the same point over and over. He didn’t want Wu Jin to go with Feng Yuan.
Feng Yuan looked at Yu Yi, then at the hesitant Wu Jin.
He blinked, his baby voice soft and sweet: “Wu Jin, then you should stay here tonight. I miss you. I’ll just call you, and we can meet again.”
“Okay.”
Once the big and small had agreed on how to meet, Yu Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After finishing the meal, Yu Yi went to take the empty plates and bowls downstairs.
Once he left, only Wu Jin and Feng Yuan remained in the room.
It wasn’t until this moment that Wu Jin asked about Feng Qi.
“Your Dad… how is he?”
“Dad is catching the Gu Diao. Wu Jin, could you help him?”
“Of course.”
Wu Jin agreed without a moment’s hesitation.
“Dad isn’t well. He even vomited blood. Yuan Yuan is really worried about him.”
Feng Yuan spoke of his concern for his Dad.
Although Dad always said he was fine and just needed to rest, Feng Yuan still felt uneasy.
He wanted to find as many helpers as possible for his Dad.
After telling Wu Jin about this idea, he was surprised to see Wu Jin immediately nod in agreement.
“Yuan Yuan, your idea is not wrong. Your Dad’s health is poor. He shouldn’t be fighting alone anymore.”
Wu Jin knew about Feng Qi’s condition.
After thinking seriously for a moment, he told Feng Yuan, “I can go with you to find helpers.”
Feng Qi had to capture fierce beasts. The Gu Diao was not the only one.
To kill or control the ten great beasts of the World of Mountains and Seas…
Even a phoenix at the peak of its power would struggle.
And now, this phoenix probably couldn’t manage it.
Feng Yuan, a newborn little phoenix, couldn’t take over his Dad’s duties, not for the time being.
So, under such a harsh situation, finding some helpers was undoubtedly the best choice.
“Mm! Wu Jin! Thank you!”
Feng Yuan happily hugged Wu Jin’s neck and planted a kiss on his handsome face. “It’s so good to have you here!”
Wu Jin’s eyes curved slightly.
He held Feng Yuan’s little chubby waist in his large hands and kissed his chubby little face.
Although they hadn’t seen each other for a long time, there was not an ounce of unfamiliarity between them.
The big and the small looked at each other, grinning foolishly.
As they laughed, Wu Jin remembered something important.
“Yuan Yuan, Yu Yi doesn’t know my identity.”
“Can you… not tell him?”
Wu Jin lowered his voice and made the request.
Hearing this, Feng Yuan tilted his little head, a bit confused.
“Why can’t you tell him?”
Feng Yuan’s being a little phoenix had never been hidden from the adults close to him.
And Wu Jin and Yu Yi—they were very close.
Feng Yuan had long noticed this.
He didn’t understand why Wu Jin wanted to keep it a secret.
A shadow passed over Wu Jin’s eyes. His tone was tinged with bitterness: “Yu Yi would be afraid. He’s most afraid of things with scales.”
Wu Jin’s original form would scare Yu Yi.
Earlier, when he wanted to give Yu Yi his most precious scales as a gift, he had first polished them to make them look nothing like scales before giving them.
“Ah?”
Feng Yuan was a little dazed, too. “Uncle Yu Yi would be afraid of you? But he likes you so much.”
“He would be.”
Wu Jin had tried many times to tell Yu Yi the truth.
But each time, he failed.
He held Feng Yuan in his arms and told him about his failed attempts.
“Yu Yi loves watching TV dramas. One time, I accidentally came across a show about a snake demon and a human.”
“What show?”
“The Legend of the White Snake. The main character is a snake. She was together with a human.”
“Mm-hm, and then?”
“During the Dragon Boat Festival, that human gave her realgar wine to drink. She turned back into a snake and was seen by the human.”
“And then, the human was scared to death.”
“I watched it with Yu Yi. I asked Yu Yi if he were the person in the show, would he also be scared?”
“He said, of course, he would be. He even said he’d be scared to death.”
“He hates snakes.”
“Yuan Yuan, I was a snake before I became a dragon.”
Thinking about how Yu Yi had said he would be scared to death of a snake made Wu Jin’s heart ache.
His arms around Feng Yuan unconsciously tightened a little.
Seeing him so upset, Feng Yuan’s little face also turned distressed.
“Wu Jin, don’t be sad. Yuan Yuan doesn’t mind you.”
“Yuan Yuan thinks you’re the most beautiful, most beautiful dragon in the whole world.”
“Later, you’ll definitely be able to transform into a dragon again!”
Feng Yuan stretched out his little chubby hand and gently patted Wu Jin’s back to comfort him.
For now, besides offering comfort, there was nothing else he could do.
Yu Yi, having returned the dishes, came back into the room and saw the two of them cuddling again.
“Hey, seriously, you two are way too clingy. Wu Jin, be honest. Yuan Yuan really isn’t your own son, is he?”
Yu Yi didn’t mind if Feng Yuan was Wu Jin’s biological child.
If he really were Wu Jin’s, then roughly speaking, he’d be part of their family, too.
It would even fulfill the wish of the elderly couple downstairs who wanted to hold a grandchild.
“He’s not mine. He’s Feng Qi’s.”
Wu Jin, who didn’t sound like he was joking, explained seriously, “Feng Qi worked very hard to give birth to Yuan Yuan.”
Feng Yuan’s Dad was only Feng Qi, and Feng Qi had a partner.
Seeing his precious little one’s serious expression, Yu Yi felt his heart flutter with how adorable it was.
“You’re way too cute.”
Yu Yi ruffled Wu Jin’s hair. After the big one, he also ruffled Feng Yuan’s little head.
“Yuan Yuan, your grandpa and grandma are sitting in the yard. It’s rare for them to meet and talk, so don’t go bother them just yet.”
When Yu Yi came upstairs earlier, Fang Fang had specifically reminded him—
To play with Yuan Yuan upstairs.
Don’t let Yuan Yuan come downstairs too early and disturb Grandpa and Grandma, who were finally able to have a conversation.
Two adults with one little one could still find plenty to do.
Yu Yi took Feng Yuan straight to the toy room he had used as a child.
He had always been spoiled at home.
This large toy room, even after he stopped playing, had been kept in excellent condition, with someone always coming up to tidy and clean.
Feng Yuan played happily in the toy room.
Although Yu Yi liked children, he didn’t have the patience to constantly supervise them.
On top of that, he hadn’t slept well last night, and he had gotten up early today.
Before long, he began to feel sleepy.
“I’m going to take a nap. Wu Jin, you stay and play with him.”
Yawning, Yu Yi turned and went to the bedroom to sleep.
Once Yu Yi went to rest, Feng Yuan lost interest in the toys.
“Wu Jin, I want to read.”
He took out the books his father had given him and asked Wu Jin to read together.
Besides reading, the two of them also made an agreement—
Tonight, they would go find Feng Qi.
In Feng Yuan’s smartwatch, there were voice messages from his Dad.
In the messages, his Dad always said he was fine.
He also didn’t allow Feng Yuan to go find him.
But Feng Yuan was a determined little one. Having found Wu Jin as his helper, he decided to surprise his Dad tonight.
The problem was how to get out tonight.
The little one fell into thought, his chubby little face serious, his small body completely still.
Seeing this, Wu Jin sensibly didn’t disturb him.
Time passed. He didn’t know how long.
Finally, Feng Yuan’s little brain came up with a good idea.
“All right, I’ve figured out how to get out! Wu Jin, can you come out tonight?”
“I can,” Wu Jin said. “I’ll come pick you up.”
“Great!” Feng Yuan replied.
Once they had worked that out, they went back to reading.
Wu Jin, after all, was a dragon without much education.
After coming to the human world, he had even spent a while being completely illiterate.
Later, when he was with Yu Yi, it was still Yu Yi who taught Wu Jin to read.
After getting past that illiteracy stage, Wu Jin’s education level was at least a bit above Feng Yuan, who was in the youngest kindergarten class.
At the very least, he could recognize most of the characters in books.
So, he was able to help Feng Yuan read.
The two of them spent the entire afternoon together.
By evening, the whole family was in the yard, preparing a barbecue themselves.
Wu Jin still hadn’t come out.
Feng Yuan carried the barbecue plates, eagerly delivering them to him several times.
From morning until evening, Feng Yuan didn’t want to leave Yu Yi’s home at all.
But no matter how reluctant he was, after finishing dinner, it was time to go.
Feng Yuan still followed his grandma back to the villa.
Once at the villa, he only stayed with his grandma for a little while before preparing to return to the Li family.
“Yuan Yuan has training tomorrow. It’s closer at home.”
As he said this, he added, “Yuan Yuan asked Grandpa to come pick me up.”
Seeing the reluctance on his grandma’s face, Feng Yuan pouted and planted several kisses on her.
“Grandma, if you miss Yuan Yuan really, really much, then come live at our house.”
“If you don’t want to go home, Yuan Yuan will come see you on the weekend.”
Frida pressed her lips together. Under the little one’s affectionate cuddles, for the first time, she felt a desire to go back.
But she still hadn’t made up her mind.
“Grandma, Grandpa is waiting for Yuan Yuan. Yuan Yuan has to go now.”
Feng Yuan glanced at his smartwatch, then lifted his head and slung his little backpack over his shoulders.
As for the bag with his clothes and daily necessities, he didn’t take it.
“Goodbye, Grandma!”
Outside, the villa was brightly lit.
Frida got up, intending to see him off to Li Heng’s car.
But the little one didn’t allow it.
Holding up his smartwatch, he explained, “This has a location tracker. Yuan Yuan can see Grandpa, too.”
“Yuan Yuan is only a few hundred meters from Grandpa, Grandma. You don’t need to send me off.”
After saying this, he ran outside.
He ran quickly. Soon, he was out of sight.
Frida stood behind for several minutes, still worried.
She stepped out, wanting to chase after him to see where he had gone.
But then a message from Feng Yuan came through: “Grandma, I see Grandpa!”
Two minutes later, another:
“Grandma, I’m in the car!”
A few minutes after that:
“Grandma, go to bed early, okay?”
Feng Yuan’s string of messages eased Frida’s worries.
After sending these messages, Feng Yuan lowered his head. His chubby little hand tapped the screen and turned off the location tracking entirely.
Adults always used the tracker to watch him.
But the smartwatch was worn on Feng Yuan’s wrist, and he had long gotten familiar with it.
He knew exactly how to make the location disappear.
“Wu Jin!”
Not long after turning off the tracker, Feng Yuan saw a pair of crimson eyes in the dark.
Wu Jin had taken his original form to fetch him, traveling quickly to catch up.
On the deserted road late at night, a scaled dragon with an entirely black body slithered along the ground.
After moving for a moment, he shot straight up into the clouds.
On his back sat a three-year-old little one, wearing a green dinosaur backpack, holding on steadily.
The little one pressed his chubby face against him, talking nonstop.
“Wu Jin, did you see my backpack?”
“There’s a big dinosaur on my backpack.”
“Do you like dinosaurs?”
“If you could transform into a dragon, could you transform into a dinosaur?”
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