Red Star Orphanage.
It had been raining for days. Whenever the children at the orphanage saw their dean sitting by the gate and gazing at the sky, he always wore a worried frown.
The children guessed that the dean was probably fretting over the leaking roof.
But today, the rain stopped, and the dean still stayed by the gate for a long while. It was almost evening before he went to the kitchen to cook.
After the rain stopped, several children played games outside the gate.
"One, two, three, freeze!"
Just as they were having fun, they heard someone shout, "Ma Hongqi, are you in there?"
While the children were wondering who Ma Hongqi was, they saw the man who was their dean—a dark-skinned man who looked like a farmer—run over wearing an apron and carrying a spatula.
He was yelling at a man nearly two meters tall, with a crew cut and one arm missing.
"Tai Tie, how many times have I told you? Don't shout my name! You're missing an arm, not your ears. How can you not understand plain speech?"
Only then did the children learn that their dean was called Ma Hongqi.
The man called Tai Tie gave an awkward chuckle. "I was in a hurry and forgot for a moment."
"By the way, have you heard about that matter?"
The children pricked up their ears, their faces full of curiosity.
But they saw the dean grab Big Guy and drag him inside.
After that.
Guests kept arriving.
The orphanage had never been this lively.
Quite a few guests came. There were businessmen in suits arriving in sedans, riders on flashy motorcycles, and a beautiful woman holding a black umbrella and wearing a long black dress...
The last to arrive was a short old man in