Over the course of this year, Su Hao had mastered the language and writing of this world through various means.
Ashan, on the other hand, still spoke haltingly after a year, like an intellectually disabled child. To the others, he looked utterly pitiful.
And very easy to bully?
Thus, Ashan became the target of the Orphanage children's teasing and bullying.
What made Ashan feel stifled was that he could not win with words, and Boss Wei would not allow him to fight back.
Boss Wei's exact words were, "You're barely over four years old, a little runt, and you want to beat up those big kids who are seven or eight? Endure it for now. In a couple of years, you can beat them up then."
Ashan thought about it and realized that he truly could not beat them.
With his combat experience, he could catch those older children off guard and gain a certain advantage. But they were not stupid. Once they reacted, he would be in for a world of pain, and he might even drag Boss Wei into it! So Ashan endured.
That endurance lasted a whole year.
This day was the weekend. More than ten children of varying ages gathered in a classroom to undergo an academic inspection from a man wearing black-rimmed glasses.
The oldest was eleven, while the youngest were only five—Su Hao's group.
After turning six, the children in the Orphanage would be sent together to a nearby elementary school. Once they entered middle school at twelve, they would live at the school long-term and return only twice a year.
In other words, after entering middle school at twelve, they would smoothly enter a state of semi-separation from the Orphanage.
The man with black-rimmed glasses was one of the Orphanage's Assistants. His name