Li Wei opened his eyes in a daze, his head feeling heavy and fuzzy.
For a split second, he felt as though he had been reborn.
The moment this thought popped into his head, he chuckled, figuring he must have been reading too many webnovels at the library lately...
As his vision gradually cleared, he found himself lying on a patch of patchy, withered yellow grass.
Beside him stood the familiar red brick wall, its paint flaking to reveal the gray mortar underneath.
Not far away was the concrete-paved small playground, where the basketball hoops along the edge had long since rusted, their nets tattered like fishing nets.
There was also that paint-peeled horizontal bar, and the solitary flagpole standing dead center in the playground...
Yuhong Orphanage?
He felt a bit stiff, his mind completely blank, his thoughts fragmenting.
After quite a long while, he finally came to his senses.
Oh... so it was afternoon activity time, and he had accidentally fallen asleep.
He sat up from the grass, patted the grass clippings off his pants, and stretched his somewhat stiff arms and legs.
Seeing the younger kids playing wildly across the playground, he prepared to find a group to join.
Just then, a commotion broke out at the far end of the wall.
Across the playground, children of all sizes stopped in their tracks, stretching their necks to look over.
Li Wei curiously edged closer as well.
There, a burly boy of about twelve or thirteen was leading three lackeys, boxing in a thin, scrawny child.
The little one trapped in the middle looked to be only six or seven years old, tilting his head back as he stubbornly argued with the bigger kid about something.
The next second.
A crisp smack rang out.
The older kid had actually