4月18日冯On April 18, Feng Xiaogang appeared at the *After Separation* re-release event with his adopted daughter Xu Duo, surprising many insiders.小刚携养女徐朵现身《大撒把》重映活动，被护十余年的徐朵凭自身努力撕掉外界质疑标签。
On April 18, Feng Xiaogang appeared at the re-release event for *The Big Let-Go* with his adopted daughter, Xu Duo. When news of this spread, many veteran professionals in the entertainment industry were quite surprised.
Xu Duo is the daughter whom Feng Xiaogang and Xu Fan have cherished for more than a decade. In her early years, while she was still in middle school, some of her artwork was uploaded to the internet by a classmate. Upon learning of this, Xu Fan specifically tracked down the student and quietly had the images removed, fearing that public criticism might interfere with her daughter’s upbringing. Prior to this, Xu Duo did not even have a public social media account and remained almost entirely out of the public eye.A child who had been so carefully shielded for over a decade suddenly appearing on the stage of a public event is bound to raise questions.
Twenty years ago, Feng Xiaogang was the undisputed icon of China’s New Year’s box office. New films released on the first day of the Lunar New Year were a staple of many families’ holiday celebrations. Back then, the child often seen by his side was his eldest daughter, Feng Siyu, who would sit quietly in a corner of the set, clutching a notebook as she took scene notes.Later, Feng Xiaogang gradually stepped back from day-to-day production duties, and his interviews increasingly focused on his children. Even then, rumors circulated that he wasn’t returning to family life but was instead paving the way for his adopted daughter, Xu Duo.
The event did not pay for trending topics, nor were any related press releases issued. The on-site host did not specifically mention Xu Duo’s identity but simply asked her to share her thoughts on the film.Xu Duo showed no signs of stage fright as she stood on stage. She simply mentioned that when she was a child, Xu Fan had shown her some old film reels the family had kept, which is how she learned that thirty years ago, people in love would wait for each other all night at the train station.In the audience, Feng Xiaogang leaned back in his chair, crumpling the plastic bottle of mineral water in his hand. He didn’t look up, but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.
Previous public speculation about her being a “connected insider” has long since been proven baseless. Xu Duo’s own screenplay—which she spent two years writing—was selected for the Youth Film Festival. In her early career, she worked behind the scenes as an editor, and her rough cuts were praised three times by the directors she collaborated with for their well-paced editing. She has single-handedly shed every label that had long been attached to her through her own hard work.Nowadays, few people mention the old rumors of marital discord between Feng Xiaogang and his wife, and no one is hounding Xu Duo with questions about the identities of her biological parents.
When elders pave the way for their children, there’s never any pretense involved. The greatest love is never about keeping someone sheltered under a glass dome; when a child is ready to fly, elders build her the sturdiest set of steps. This kind of care is, after all, the most sincere sentiment elders can offer their younger ones.
