After Wang Xiaoyu finished her introduction, Jiang Siming still did not appear onstage.
Five seconds passed, then ten. Jiang Siming was still nowhere to be seen.
The audience grew puzzled. Could the richest man have had something come up again and left without performing?
Given his personality and usual style, that really was possible.
After waiting a while longer without seeing Jiang Siming, everyone began to think the livestream was about to suffer a mishap.
Then the screen onstage flickered.
A video appeared on it.
The video was familiar. It was neither a movie nor an MV, but footage from a surveillance camera.
In the footage, a little girl was hit by a car. The driver not only failed to help her, but ran over her a second time.
Afterward, the driver fled. Even more unbearable was the fact that more than a dozen cars passed by afterward, yet not one stopped to call the police or an ambulance for the girl.
The footage was familiar, and it was from a long time ago.
But the moment it played, everyone remembered it at once: the 2011 Little Yueyue incident.
At the time, the incident had sparked widespread discussion throughout society. It had also been a direct examination of human nature.
Yet at the end of the video, there was still something that moved everyone.
A street cleaner, Big Mom, discovered the girl lying on the ground. She walked toward her and called an ambulance.
Only then did everyone see hope in human kindness once more.
The distance Big Mom covered as she stepped through the rain toward the girl, one step at a time, totaled eight steps. Everyone had come to call them Angel's Eight Steps.
The video ended. The screen went black, and that was it.
Just as everyone