Jiang Li's Past

"Come look, this person's name is so interesting—it's the same as Mr. Jiang's." Luo Zhu called over her brother and Ji Kongkong, sweeping away her earlier gloom.

"It really is. This person is also named Jiang Li."

Luo Ying and Ji Kongkong were drawn over. Like Luo Zhu, they were both intrigued by this namesake.

"It's rare to see someone with the same first and last name as Uncle Jiang. Should we take a look at this person's past?" Ji Kongkong said.

Because of Jiang Li's existence, and out of respect for him, parents in the Nine Provinces would not name their children "Jiang Li." In the present-day Nine Provinces, there was only one person named Jiang Li.

"This Jiang Li grew up in this orphanage."

Ji Kongkong used the Time Dao to see the past, then shared the scene she saw with Luo Ying and Luo Zhu through Divine Sense.

At the entrance to an orphanage, a young couple held a basket. Sneaking about, they set the basket down by the door, lightly knocked on it, and swiftly departed.

The orphanage director was an elderly woman. When she opened the door, she saw only a lone basket on the ground, with no one around. She sighed.

Inside the basket lay a baby sleeping peacefully.

The Old Dean sighed. This was not the first time she had encountered such a thing. Young couples, their heads heated, had children, yet for all sorts of reasons could not raise them. So they left the children at orphanages, hospitals, and other such places, then quietly departed as though nothing had happened.

"If they lacked the ability, why bring this child into the world to suffer?"

The Old Dean picked up the child and noticed a slip of paper in his hand. Written