five years ago.

January 1, 2019 in the new calendar.

In an orphanage in a second-tier city in Huilong Kingdom.

The annual New Year's Day has always been a day for the people of Huilong to celebrate the New Year and reunite with their families. Even though in recent years, this "New Year's flavor" has become less and less, the people of Huilong are still used to family gatherings.

Together, we watched the New Year's Day party with more traditional elements than modern life, and ate the same fattening reunion dinner every year.

But these seem to be out of reach for the poor children of all sizes in orphanages. Even if the national policy pays attention to it, the society continues to send warmth so that every child can eat well and eat well.

But family love is still a luxury that no amount of money can buy for orphans.

Yiyi sat on her own little bench in the corner of the room, looking at a group of peers in the room that she knew or didn't know, watching them happily discuss this year's New Year's Day party, and how girls would star when a certain male star appeared.

With twinkling eyes, the boy would scream while performing magic tricks.

She relives this scene every year, just like every year some friends are taken away by their adoptive parents, and every year there are new friends coming in confused.

And she stayed in this orphanage for eleven years.

Eleven years! How long is eleven years? It is 4,015 days, more than 96,000 hours, and a fraction of the length of a person’s life!

As for why no one adopts her? You must know that once the children in the orphanage are over fifteen years old, basically no family will choose them. But now that she is thirteen years old, she is so eager for family affection and a warm home...

The reason for all this only stems from herself, she is incomplete, she is a defective product.

"Jiang Yiyi, come here quickly!"

"Jiang Yiyi, did you hear me? I told you to come here quickly!"

"Jiang Yiyi!..."

Her empty eyes gradually lost their stability under the blow of the indoor heater. She just wanted to sleep, and when she woke up, maybe the world would become a better place...

"Jiang Yiyi!"

A few warm fingers twisted Jiang Yiyi's face, waking her up from her drowsy state. She pushed away the broken hair scattered in front of her eyes. Jiang Yiyi raised her head in confusion. Although Aunt Pei has always been fickle, but

She would never spank a child, and she had never had her cheek pinched by Aunt Pei. Only the naughtiest boys in the orphanage would be treated like this.

"Yiyi, come with me."

Seeing that Jiang Yiyi was awake, Aunt Pei tidied up Yiyi's slightly messy collar and gave her some instructions with a smile on her face.

"Yiyi, let me tell you, you will have to..."

In an instant, Jiang Yiyi couldn't quite hear what Aunt Pei was saying. She just mechanically cooperated with Aunt Pei's arrangement of her clothes and put on a brand new light yellow coat. Matching the beauty of an adolescent girl, everything looked so energetic.

shoot.

When she came back to her soul again, she was no longer in the old house in the backyard where she used to watch the party, but in front of the inquiry room next to the front desk of the orphanage.

Beside her, Aunt Pei gently stroked Jiang Yiyi's clean ponytail and said encouragingly: "Go quickly, Yiyi, the dean is still waiting inside to receive her."

Taking a deep breath, isn't this what she has been waiting for for eleven years.

Jiang Yiyi opened the door.

"Dong dong."

"Yiyi, come in quickly."

The old dean's kind voice came from the room. Hearing the dean's familiar voice, Jiang Yiyi mustered up her courage and turned the door handle.

"Crack."

The wooden door was as light as a feather with good lubrication and maintenance, but at this moment Jiang Yiyi felt that she was opening a door that sealed a new world.

The door was wide open, and the warm light-colored chandelier light in the room dispersed the gloomy LED fluorescent light in the corridor.

Before she could say hello to the old dean, Jiang Yiyi felt a gaze coming towards her, and unconsciously, she met those eyes.

It was a pair of silver-grey eyes.

Cold and willful.

She didn't know why, but she hated this look. It made her feel like she was a weak person, some kind of inferior creature.

…………

Jiang Yiyi stood behind the old dean, lowering her eyes and not observing the young man opposite.

"Although the adoption age standard stipulated in the "Huilong Country Adoption Law" has been reduced a lot in recent years, at your age, are you..."

"You should know that there are always options when it comes to adoption."

"This... don't be angry. After all, our orphanage is protected by the law, and the whereabouts of this orphan is also protected by the law."

"Don't worry, can illegal elements get the "Huilong Country First Class Adoption Application" issued by these formal institutions, the "Dulan Road Provincial Orphanage Adoption Conditions and Financial Conditions Certificate" and the "Huilong Country Orphans Special Office"

Proof of household registration?"

Bai Ye pushed the materials spread out in front of him to the old dean opposite, and stretched out his hand to indicate to the old dean to read them at will.

Just in case, the old dean took out his reading glasses from his breast pocket and read one material after another carefully, line by line.

After a long time, the old dean took off his glasses and nodded to the young and outrageous man opposite, confirming that what the man said was true.

After putting away the materials, the old dean held a stack of documents and packed them carefully, as if he was asking something inadvertently.

"These materials need to be copied and filed in the orphanage, and the originals will be returned to you later. But this little friend Bai, I haven't dared to ask you this year?"

As soon as the old dean finished speaking, Bai Ye shook his head. Although this kind of thing is insignificant, it is also a kind of identity designation information. It is better to be cautious.

"Haha, I saw that my little friend was young and promising, and at such a young age, he met the conditions for adoption, so I couldn't help but ask about it. I'm sorry, I'm disrespectful."

After a haha, the old dean did Tai Chi and changed the topic in another direction.

"So, little friend Bai, why did you come to our orphanage to adopt Yiyi by name? Maybe you don't know, Yiyi..."

Jiang Yiyi, who had been silent from the beginning, now had her heartbeat speeding up suddenly, and her whole body was trembling slightly with excitement.

"Of course I know that she was born with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also commonly known as 'ALS'..."

With her fingers clenched tightly, Jiang Yiyi scratched out wrinkles in her brand new coat. Those were the words she hated most in her life, as if every word was mocking her misfortune.

"You still insist?"

Although the old dean hopes that Yiyi will be taken away, he does not want Yiyi to be abandoned again.

"Of course, otherwise why would I specify it?"

Bai Ye looked at Jiang Yiyi, who had begun to cry, as if looking at a jade destined to be brilliant.

…………

After everything was done, the time unconsciously went into the night. In the mid-air in the distance, there was a fireworks show planned by the local government. The colorful lights and fires ignited the night and dispelled the deep cold of winter.

Jiang Yiyi followed Bai Ye, looking at the figure of the man in front of her who turned around after opening the car door, and at his cold face under the shining night sky.

"My name is Bai Ye, and you will be called Bai Yi from now on."

"Now, let's go home first."

Fine snowflakes dotted the tip of Bai Yi's nose and gradually melted.
Chapter completed!