Monster

Chapter 13.2 - Cruelty

The busy life of the research institute began again. He was interviewed almost every day, and attended various international conferences and gave various kinds of lectures every month. Indeed, as Feng Hua had said, he would no longer restrict Feng Yeran from seeing Chen Xuan. He would also ask for rewards after doing things for Feng Yeran. For example, he would ask Feng Yeran to hold hands with him, squeeze his shoulders, give him baths, wash his clothes, cook for him, tell him stories, watch movies with him, sleep with him, and, if he'd done something more difficult, he would even ask for kisses.

Chen Xuan also began to make contact with Feng Hua with a plan. Fortunately, Feng Hua didn't seem to resist her very much now. Everyone was saying that Feng Hua was becoming more and more mature. Finally, with the arrival of spring, a documentary on Feng Hua's supernormal powers began to be recorded.

The first season was called The Dream Maker and had only five episodes. It mainly consisted of Feng Hua recreating the experimenters' dreams, from simple dreams to complex dreams, from ones that were intermittent to ones with plotlines, from the mundane to the thrilling.

The program had only released five episodes, and it had achieved huge success, especially on the internet where teenage girls were about to explode. For them, this young Adesir man with a fantastic face, a great figure, a terribly charming voice, and even supernormal powers was simply their dream lover. Sisters and housewives in their twenties and thirties were discussing whether Feng Hua was a little puppy dog1 or a little wolf dog2, and younger girls were making up all sorts of fan comics and novels; some plastic surgery hospitals began to study Feng Hua's "template", because many people came to them and said they wanted to look like Feng Hua; some people on academic websites claimed that Feng Hua had the royal bloodline of Adesir, which was very popular among readers even though there wasn't much basis for it, and this news was trending as soon as it came out.

The teaser for the second season, titled The Creator, was then promoted all over the internet, and it mainly introduced Feng Hua's ability of replication. Due to the first season's excellent ratings, it was decided that there would be ten episodes for the second season, starting with replications of simple still objects, such as a flower, a sapling and a rock, and then a glass of water, a fish, a bird, two rabbits, three monkeys... It was said that he would replicate a person in the last episode, which made everyone excited.

Feng Hua's fame was growing, even more than most celebrities.

Along with his fame, he was granted more privileges and was given increasing freedom. He had a communication device, a place to live under his own name, and could go out with Feng Yeran without restriction.

One day in the middle of summer, he had just finished shooting The Creator and went to a well-known university in America with Feng Yeran to attend an international conference. After it was over, Feng Yeran and the scholars were chatting happily. Feng Hua walked out first, wandered around the campus, and occasionally listened at the door to what the teachers in the classrooms were saying.

Some were talking about quantum physics, some were talking about biology, and some were talking about philosophy.

Feng Hua stood at the back door, watching a blonde and blue-eyed female professor point to a three-dimensional image as she said in standard English, "This is a famous painting from hundreds of years ago. The only thing you can see are the eyes. Is it male or female, good or evil?"

Student: "Evil."

Professor: "Why?"

Student: "Because the eyes are fierce, like a woman's eyes, and the eyelashes are so long." There was a burst of laughter.

The picture got bigger. Now, everyone could see its face and part of its movements.

"It's actually a man, such a pretty man. Although he doesn't have much expression, it looks as if he's in pain. He must be a believer. He's holding something like a cross in his hand. Is he reciting the Bible?"