Chapter 44 - Chapter 44: Chapter 43 Naughty Child (1/2)

Chapter 44: Chapter 43 Naughty Child

Chris stood calmly with his hands clasped behind his back in the open space outside the orphanage, looking toward the group of children who had come out to play.

He seemed out of place, his eyes looking too much like those of a grown adult, as if he were a staff member there to look after the children.

“Hey, isn’t there anyone for you to play with?”

A girl with light green short hair and a crutch came over, slightly older than Chris, her pale and chubby face all smiles.

Her right leg had a congenital severe deformation, the cause of which was extremely strange, such that even Irene could not cure it.

Chris simply looked over at her with his hands behind his back, without speaking.

“My name is Vanessa. I came here because my parents abandoned me. Hello.”

Vanessa introduced herself enthusiastically, not showing any sadness even when mentioning her abandonment.

Suddenly, she noticed Chris’s clothes were completely different from theirs, with an entirely different look and texture, probably worlds apart in price, and laughed:

“You don’t seem to be from here! I might have misunderstood, but you can play with us if you want!”

Chris shook his head in refusal, and Vanessa was puzzled as to why he just wouldn’t speak.

Suddenly, a little chubby kid came running over with a few other children and surrounded Chris, the chubby kid shouting angrily.

“You pushed me from behind last time! Don’t think I won’t dare to hit you just because you are the director’s brother!”

Chris silently, with his hands still behind his back, hopped back rhythmically and deftly dodged all attacks, then quite naturally stuck out his foot,

and with a yelp, the chubby kid tripped and fell face-first into the ground.

Vanessa quickly intervened, frowning and shouting, “Stop, no fighting! Why did you push him from behind before?”

She wanted to hear the explanation from the director’s brother. The director was the kindest person in the world, and surely her brother had a reason for pushing someone.

Chris said a word after a long silence.

“Interesting.”

Vanessa was furious, seizing Chris’s collar filled with a sense of justice.

“Then you apologize! In my eyes, Hospital Director Irene is like a sister to me, so you’re like a little brother, which means I have to take responsibility for you. You must apologize!”

Chris didn’t like being touched by anyone other than Irene, and he glanced coldly at Vanessa, but she wasn’t at all afraid of him and was determined that he should apologize.

For some reason, a complicated emotion rose in Chris’s heart, not just anger, and he suddenly pushed her down and turned to run away.

“Ah!”

Vanessa hadn’t expected such an outcome and fell to the ground in a sorry state, sweating coldly from pain.

Chris, hearing the noise, stopped a short distance away and turned back to glance at her, hesitating, but when he saw the chubby kid and others starting to throw stones, he swiftly turned and ran off again.

The children were all angry, hurriedly helping Vanessa get up, as they all liked Vanessa, who always helped others and was forever optimistic.

“That’s terrible; that boy is awful. I can’t believe the director has such a horrible brother!”

“Yes, he’s dreadful. He actually pushed Vanessa over.”

After the children helped Vanessa up, her face still breaking out in cold sweat, she shook her head and said:

“Next time I see him, as his sister, I will thoroughly teach him a lesson.”

She paused and then smiled, “Sister Irene always said that every child can be taught well, that there’s hope for any child, and I believe that in my heart too.”

A few children who had stolen things in the past bowed their heads, unable to forget Irene’s teachings, believing they could all grow up to be useful people.

Vanessa, full of aspirations for the future, murmured to herself as she looked at her deformed and unsightly right leg, smilingly saying: