Transmigrated into the Villain’s Family to be the Pampered Favorite 74

Chapter 74: Qualified

The orange-red sunset shone on the left side of Nuonuo’s little face, and his long eyelashes were clearly visible under the glow of the setting sun.

With his little mouth open, revealing his little pink tongue, Nuonuo stared foolishly at his papa for a long while before he quickly lowered his little head and stopped talking.

The weather had returned to its usual stuffiness. Fei Zhiyan unbuttoned the top button of his shirt and, seeing the little one’s chattering little mouth suddenly quiet down, his hand movements also paused.

“What were you just talking about?”

Fei Zhiyan knew that Nuonuo hadn’t recovered from his awkwardness yet, so he took the initiative to ask about him.

Unfortunately, Nuonuo still hadn’t recovered from the scene of his papa being angry yesterday. His little eyes were dazed, his little mouth open as he thought about something.

Seeing this, Fei Zhiyan didn’t say anything more, and the atmosphere at the dining table suddenly became silent.

Fei Luo, who was present, held his spoon and, pursing his lips, secretly glanced at his little brother, then turned his head to look at his father. Sensing that the atmosphere was not right, he wanted to speak up and take his little brother out first.

But Fei Han directly stuffed Fei Luo’s little spoon into his mouth, blocking the words he was about to say, and spoke first. “Fei Luo just finished his exams. I’ll go up and help him calculate his grades and correct any mistakes.”

Fei Luo blinked his big eyes in confusion, thinking to himself, Why is Eldest Brother suddenly so concerned about my studies?

And so, with Fei Zhiyan’s nod of approval, a bewildered Fei Luo was led upstairs by Fei Han.

Nuonuo hadn’t noticed that his brothers had left. He finished his daze, ate his sweet little rice balls, and even peeked at his papa with his little eyes.

Fei Zhiyan, of course, noticed Nuonuo’s gaze. He sighed lightly and reached out to rub Nuonuo’s soft hair. “Are you angry with Papa?”

Nuonuo, having his little head rubbed, was like a little kitten and couldn’t help but whimper a few times. “No, ya.”

Nuonuo was a very good-tempered cub, and his personality was always clingy. His silly little head couldn’t hold so many things. What’s more, he loved his papa and brothers so much that no matter what, he would never be angry with his papa.

It was just that he felt he wasn’t a very good child and had disappointed his papa.

At this thought, Nuonuo couldn’t help but droop his little head in dejection, the tuft of hair on his head also drooping down.

“I’m not a good child. Papa doesn’t like me anymore.”

In his lonely past, Nuonuo had drawn strength from the photos of his papa and brothers countless times, fantasizing that he would one day become a little villain loved by everyone. He would be his papa’s pride, and his brothers would also happily lift him up to their heads, saying he was the most outstanding little villain in the family.

Unfortunately, Nuonuo had not achieved any of these.

Rubbing his little eyes, a thin layer of moisture welled up in Nuonuo’s eyes again, and he couldn’t help but want to cry.

Fei Zhiyan saw the little one start to cry at the slightest disagreement, and he curled his lips in an amused smile. For a moment, he even felt that children were made of tears.

Otherwise, how could they cry just like that?

Reaching out to pinch Nuonuo’s little nose, Fei Zhiyan lowered his head slightly to be at eye level with him. “Crying again? Didn’t you say you wanted to be a strong little merman?”

Hearing his papa’s words, Nuonuo pouted and tried his best to hold back his tears, but the tears, like crystal-clear diamonds, just kept accumulating. “I don’t want to be a stwong wittle merman anymore.”

Having made a futile effort, Nuonuo pouted and wiped his eyes with his little hands, saying in a small, nasal voice.

“Then don’t be. Just be a cute little merman.”

Fei Zhiyan’s lips curled into a faint smile, and he gently wiped the tears from the little dumpling’s face with a tissue. “Isn’t Papa working so hard just so that our Nuonuo can live a carefree and happy life?”

Before, Fei Zhiyan had never thought about how he would teach his son to grow up if he had one.

Fei Zhiyan had no parents and was a very strange outlier in the merman clan. He was quite disdainful of the merman’s doting on their little cubs.

Although the merman race was powerful, they were a naive and kind race. They were carefree, and their biggest worry every day was probably how to catch more food.

Before coming ashore, Fei Zhiyan had also lived with his clan in the vast seabed. There were strange-shaped corals, jellyfish that would glow at night, and even a ferocious shark that would constantly challenge the merman clan…

Unfortunately, all of this turned into a bubble under the hypocritical sweet talk of humans.

All the mermaids except Fei Zhiyan had naively believed the humans’ words and were hung on a ship’s stern with a fishing net made of special materials. The smell of their blood, mixed with the smell of the sea, drifted far away.

At that time, Fei Zhiyan had transformed his legs and stood on a small island, coldly watching his kin being tortured and abused by humans. Their scales were peeled off one by one, and their fish bones were forcibly pulled out.

He thought he would be heartless and leave. After all, he had warned his kin again and again that humans could not be trusted. But those naive mermaids thought his ideas were too dark and in the end, they fell for it, were imprisoned on the ship, and became the most critical material for biochemical experiments.

When the ship docked by the small island, Fei Zhiyan saw from a distance the pleading and painful gazes of his kin, and a voice came to him on a channel that humans could not hear. “Kill us!”

Mermaids were, to some extent, half-human.

And what humans did not lack was the pride and self-respect in their bones.

So his noble and proud kin would not allow themselves to become caged birds, unwilling to be locked in a dark laboratory, living a humble and painful life.

So they chose to ask their only kin for help, hoping he could kill them.

This way, their bodies would be swept into the deep sea they loved and cherished with the rolling waves, buried in the sand lake clusters, buried under the mud of the seabed. Their fish bones would also become nutrients for the seabed, and with the ebb and flow of the tide, they would feed back to other creatures in the vast ocean.

And so, the short lives of that group of mermaids finally ended at the hands of Fei Zhiyan, or rather, at their own hands.

Including that group of profit-driven humans, they were buried together in the sea.

Fei Zhiyan had officially become a true loner.

There would be no more silly and sweet mermaids chasing the ocean currents. That shark that always harassed the mermaids could finally be a hegemon in the sea without any scruples.

And he no longer had to be a misfit in the clan.

But who would have thought that, by a strange twist of fate, he would actually have a merman descendant.

Silly and simple, really just like those kin of Fei Zhiyan’s.

Nuonuo’s eyes were as clear and bright as the sea, and his soft voice made Fei Zhiyan, in a daze, seem to see that group of little merman cubs chasing the waves again.

The power of bloodline was really hard to explain, especially when Fei Zhiyan truly began to take on the role of a father, learning to give the little merman a better growth. His heart was always filled with joy and emotion.

He even understood why his merman kin had taught their little cubs to be so worldly-unaware. After all, if he could, he also hoped that his son could be a silly merman who didn’t have to worry about anything, who only had to think about whether there would be meat for lunch and whether the porridge for dinner would be sweet.

Reaching out his hand, Fei Zhiyan picked up Nuonuo and looked at him face-to-face. “Papa is not a good papa. Will Nuonuo dislike Papa?”

Hearing his papa’s words, Nuonuo quickly shook his little head. “No, I will always wike Papa!”

Fei Zhiyan laughed. “That’s it then. Nuonuo is not a good child, not strong and not brave, but Papa will also always like you.”

Pausing for a moment, Fei Zhiyan looked at Nuonuo with a gentle gaze and continued in a slow voice, “This is also the first time I want to be a good father. In the future, I’ll have to ask our Nuonuo to bear with me.”

Nuonuo swung his little feet, and after a long while of reacting in his little head, he barely understood what his papa meant and quickly said in his milky voice, “Me too!”

Unable to help but let out a soft laugh, Fei Zhiyan felt that although his cub was silly, he was still very likable.

A parent’s favoritism is so double-standard and needs no reason. Not only that, but Fei Zhiyan was also very righteous. “Don’t worry. Nuonuo doesn’t have to do anything. Papa will let you stand directly at the finish line of others.”

Nuonuo was held in the air, his little head tilted in confusion, not understanding what that meant. “Is it wots and wots of wittle cookies to eat?” Nuonuo asked in confusion.

Fei Zhiyan placed the little one on the chair and nodded lightly. “Yes, but you can only eat five a day. Otherwise, you won’t be able to eat your meals.”

Nuonuo wrinkled his little face, as deflated as a flat balloon. He sat there and sighed. “Okay then. I’ll just eat five.”

Who’s to blame for me being a good child who listens to Papa, Nuonuo thought helplessly, propping his little face in his hands.

Fei Zhiyan, on the other hand, rubbed Nuonuo’s head, his cold eyes now filled with warmth as he said softly, “Perhaps in the future, when Nuonuo grows up, Papa will take you to see the bottom of the sea.”

To see the place where the merman race once lived, to feel the cool sea water soaking your skin, and to say hello to those wonderful and brilliant underwater creatures again.

Fei Zhiyan felt that when more time passed, he might be able to completely let go of the past, no longer be so extremely disgusted and resentful, and learn to see the beauty he had once experienced.

After all, it would still be a long, long time before the little one grew up. By then, he would definitely become a qualified father.