"When Director Situ turned you back then, that would have been one thing. I never expected your vile tricks to go far beyond that. You made things difficult for the orphans already recruited by the Star Engineering Federation at every turn, deliberately assigning them to high-risk jobs. Then you used every filthy trick imaginable to stir up trouble and dock their wages. You drove many orphans into debt crises, even to the brink of life and death."
Shi Tiexin only learned of this afterward.
All he had to do was think of his own former circumstances to know that wage deductions and debt crises were tremendous hardships for anyone at the bottom. Those orphans had fought with everything they had, selling their strength, intellect, dignity, and health in exchange for job opportunities and meager savings. Yet under He Pingzhang and his lackeys' harassment, it had all vanished like bubbles. The thought made Shi Tiexin blaze with fury.
"He Pingzhang, you've done every evil deed under heaven!"
"On the small scale, this is abusing public tools for private gain, using your authority for personal profit. The Star Engineering Federation should investigate you directly."
"On the large scale, the Orphanage is my home, and the other orphans are my brothers and sisters. You violated my home and bullied my brothers and sisters. You're courting death!"
Among the crowd, Baldy Situ was genuinely a little moved.
He had been holding up the Orphanage alone for so long, always feeling like a single tree struggling to support a collapsing house. Now, at last, someone had come to stand up for him.
And the one standing up for him was precisely the child he had favored and raised himself.
Yet amid his emotions, he could not help asking, "Did you get your 'small scale' and