Chapter 108: Bloom
After Fei Jing carried Nuonuo off the stage, the fans below were in an uproar for a while.
But soon, their attention was once again drawn to Fei Jing, who had walked onto the stage.
Fei Jing was wearing the same light blue suit as the new singer. The slim-fitting design made his youthful figure look even taller. A small, decorative brooch hung on his chest, sparkling like a star under the lights.
He sat in front of the piano, his fair fingers lightly sweeping across the keys. A clear sound suddenly rang out and then quickly disappeared in the dimming lights.
When the lights came on again, only he was left sitting at the piano, facing the microphone in front, and singing the first song of the night.
It was also a song he had written and composed himself, which had taken him several months of writing and revising to create.
The title was “A Little Bloom.”
Since his debut, Fei Jing’s singing style and style had always been inclined towards passionate rock. The endless restlessness flowing in his body was all vented and erupted in one concert after another.
He was also particularly good at high notes. Just like at the opening performance of the open day, with just one syllable, he could cover the clamor of tens of thousands of people, like a sharp sword breaking through the sky, making people’s attention all focused on him.
But this didn’t mean he couldn’t sing ballads. It was just that he found these songs too cheesy and was never willing to sing them.
And this song he had written himself was a type he would have never even looked at before, a complete ballad from beginning to end.
Fei Jing’s clear voice slowly flowed on the stage, the sound of the piano he was playing accompanying his singing. For a moment, the entire hall became quiet, immersed in his voice.
This was a song written for Nuonuo, so Fei Jing sang it with extra care.
Looking at the halo formed by the stage lights, Fei Jing suddenly thought of the afternoon of the second day he had just met Nuonuo.
Nuonuo had given Fei Jing a little wildflower in the garden, wilted and ugly. But under the dazzling sunlight that day, Fei Jing had, in a daze, felt that it was still blooming.
That was the first flower he had ever received.
Perhaps that day had just passed peacefully, but when Fei Jing looked back, he found that that day had always occupied a corner of his heart.
Even today, Fei Jing had accidentally received a flower from Nuonuo again.
He felt very lucky to have such a well-behaved and clingy little brother. So when he was so busy with his studies and work that he was at his wit’s end, he still couldn’t suppress his emotions and wanted to give Nuonuo something.
Just like the little flower he had received that day, he hoped that his singing could also remain in Nuonuo’s heart, letting him know that his brother actually loved him very much too.
Below the stage.
The light scattered into the bottom of Nuonuo’s eyes, who was holding his little face, forming a small, bright light, just like the song Fei Jing was singing, quietly blooming.
Before one song was even finished, Fei Jing, this top celebrity, had quickly occupied several hot searches.
Perhaps because it was too different from his usual style, countless netizens, hearing the wind, were all speculating about who this song was for.
There were even anti-fans who were constantly stirring up trouble, taking the opportunity to slander him.
The war between fans and anti-fans was almost on the verge of breaking out.
But the outside noise didn’t affect Fei Jing at all.
He had just finished removing his makeup at this time and was using a cat teaser he had found somewhere to dangle up and down, playing with Nuonuo.
The little silly Nuonuo was very happy playing with anything, and he cooperated with sparkling little eyes, having a great time with his brother.
By the time the manager walked in, in a frenzy, she saw Fei Jing half-crouching on the ground, playing this childish and boring game with Nuonuo.
The manager slapped her forehead. She had been quite moved when she heard the song Fei Jing had written for his little brother, but seeing Fei Jing’s wicked taste come up and tease Nuonuo again, the emotion in her heart completely dissipated.
“Fei Jing, have you seen Weibo?”
After playing with Nuonuo, Fei Jing finally had time to answer. “I’ve seen it. What’s wrong?”
Seeing his calm and composed appearance, the manager was so angry her teeth itched.
But then she saw Nuonuo, who was holding the cat teaser and looking at her with his fair little face tilted up, and the manager’s temper instantly vanished.
“Nuonuo, come here. How about big sister plays with you?”
The manager sister showed a doting smile, went over and rua’d Nuonuo’s little face, and only then did she feel that she had come back to life.
“That’s enough. This is my little brother.”
Fei Jing looked at her with a slightly dark face.
The manager coughed embarrassedly, returned to her calm and elite white-collar appearance, and handed him her phone. “You look at the comments on Weibo. The current situation is very bad for you.”
And Fei Jing just scrolled through the comments, saw the same old rhetoric from the anti-fans, and let out an impatient “tsk.”
Propping his chin on his hand and considering what to take Nuonuo to eat later, Fei Jing suddenly came across a female star’s Weibo post.
Almost instantly, his face turned completely dark.
In fact, if you listened carefully to the song Fei Jing had sung, you could find that the emotions in his lyrics were more of doting and hope, an expectation for Nuonuo to grow up happily.
But even so, there were still shameless stars who were trying to ride on his coattails online, using his popularity to claim credit, their words so ambiguous it was as if Fei Jing were confessing to her.
His heart was so disgusted that Fei Jing felt uncomfortable all over. He took a few deep breaths and took out his phone to forward the other’s Weibo post.
[Look at your face. Is it bigger than the moon outside? (Forward…)]
Fei Jing had never been a tolerant person, but to be so sharp-tongued and directly confront a female star was a first.
In a few seconds, Fei Jing’s Weibo post was on the top of the hot search, followed by a “laughing and crying” emoji.
[Hahaha, today is a full moon. Brother Jing is so mean, ha!]
[I support! A certain female star’s face is too big, she has to ride on everything. This song is clearly written for his family!]
Because of this Weibo post, this female star was affectionately called “Sister Moon” by people afterwards.
But even with such an incident, it still couldn’t hide the fact that Fei Jing’s song was indeed very good.
Many netizens, after listening to it, felt a warmth in their hearts and a bit of a sourness that made them want to cry. It was as if they had also experienced Fei Jing’s love and expectation for Nuonuo.
For a time, this song directly topped various music charts and became a song that many people had on a loop.
After the program was recorded and Nuonuo had eaten a set meal prepared by the program crew with Fei Jing, he really couldn’t hold on anymore and fell asleep with a small yawn.
Having been busy all day, he curled up in his brother’s arms and slept very soundly.
The director walked over, stroking his beard, and had a quiet chat with Fei Jing for a few sentences, stuffing a small red envelope into Nuonuo’s hand.
Although Nuonuo had caused a misunderstanding today, it had to be said that the effect was surprisingly good.
And so, the director had specially prepared an extra “salary” for the little guest Nuonuo, who had already fallen asleep.
By the time Nuonuo opened his eyes again, it was already the next morning.
He couldn’t tell where he was for a moment. He stuck his little bottom out and rolled around on the bed like a clock for a while before he lifted his little head from a pile of wrinkled sheets.
When Fei Zhiyan came to carry Nuonuo down for breakfast, he saw the little one’s dazed expression, a hint of a smile in his eyes as he took the sheet off Nuonuo’s head. “How did you end up sleeping in the sheets?”
Holding the still-warm, milky-scented dumpling, Fei Zhiyan felt it was almost like holding a ball of cotton and couldn’t help but bounce him.
Nuonuo’s cheeks trembled from being bounced, his little mouth slightly open, his eyes not even blinking for a long time, still immersed in his sleep.
By the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, the cool air from the living room’s floor-to-ceiling windows made Nuonuo shrink his little shoulders, and he woke up with a start.
“Papa, where’s Second Brother?”
Nuonuo clearly remembered that he was still watching the performance, but in the blink of an eye, his second brother was gone.
Turning his little head left and right, Nuonuo’s big, round eyes darted around. Finding that his second brother was not in the living room, he couldn’t help but sigh with a bit of helplessness.
“Alright, you’re sighing now?”
Fei Zhiyan tapped Nuonuo’s little nose and carried him to the dining room to eat with a smile.
It wasn’t until he saw the breakfast on the table that Nuonuo finally forgot about the dazzlingly magnificent stage and quickly sat obediently in his chair, eagerly waiting for his papa to distribute the buns and porridge.
After finishing his meal, Fei Zhiyan took a napkin and wiped Nuonuo’s oily little mouth, instructing, “You have to do your homework with your brother today. You forgot to do it last time. This time, do it with your brother, you know?”
When it came to homework, many kindergarten children still didn’t quite understand what it was.
Last time, for the writing homework Teacher Xiao Ran had assigned, only Gu Ze in the whole class had finished it.
When the teacher asked, Nuonuo didn’t remember it at all and even looked up with a dazed little face. “What is homework?”
Teacher Xiao Ran could only sigh and try her best not to assign homework that needed to be written after class.
But this time, the course had just come to an end, and it was a weekend holiday. The teacher was afraid that the children would completely forget what they had learned once they started playing, so she instructed the parents to supervise the children to finish their homework.
In fact, it was very simple, just a few arithmetic problems, and they were all the kind that you could get the answer to at a glance, like 1+1.
But this was only for people with a primary school education or above.
And Nuonuo hadn’t even gotten his kindergarten diploma yet. The moment he saw this kind of problem, it really made his little head ache.
Fei Luo had finished most of his homework yesterday, with only some unimportant reading homework left. So he simply sat on the side and tutored his little brother.
“One plus one, this is very simple,” Fei Luo said, shaking his little curls slightly.
Nuonuo, on the side, holding a pencil, frowned his little brow in a dilemma, his little hands clutching the pen tightly as he stared at the problem, huffing and puffing for a long time without moving his pen.
“Nuonuo, you stretch out your hand and count. You’ll know the answer.”
Fei Luo passed on his own experience of doing problems to his little brother.
Nuonuo nodded his head and quickly put down his pen, stretching out his ten chubby little fingers. “One, two, three…”
After counting to five, Nuonuo couldn’t count anymore. He quickly lifted his little head and asked with sparkling eyes, “Is it five, ya?”
Fei Luo: “I think… probably not.”