Chapter 51 1/2

Cen Lang had long ordered someone to investigate the past of the orphanage director, Yu Yangxun.

Yu Yangxun was a Beta who became the director of the orphanage at a young age. In people’s eyes, he was a compassionate Beta who, during the chaotic interstellar wars, took in many orphans.

No one knew about his failed love experience. After breaking up with his ex-boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend, following family arrangements, married a plain-looking Omega and quickly had an adorable son.

Yu Yangxun tried to reconcile with his ex-boyfriend, but the ex-boyfriend, now with a family and a cute child, insisted they shouldn’t meet again.

Yu Yangxun, with a radical personality, felt that the Omega his ex-boyfriend married was not as good-looking as him, and he only lost because the Omega could bear children, something he couldn’t achieve in their three-year relationship.

To him, it was just a child. There were plenty of orphans, and he could easily pick one. There were many cuter than the child born to that Omega.

Yu Yangxun infiltrated the orphanage as a volunteer to select children. Due to a twist of fate, the previous orphanage director passed away, and Yu Yangxun, thinking he was a child-loving person, entrusted the orphanage to him.

After taking over the orphanage, Yu Yangxun found that he didn’t like noisy children; in fact, he detested them. However, the profession boosted his vanity, as the orphanage was considered a safe zone under interstellar war rules. He assigned a military-style number to each child, attempting to militarize the management.

He became increasingly indifferent, and he even started to envy cute children. With a little guidance, the cute children became victims of bullying within the orphanage.

Nineteen, who arrived after being rescued from a robbery where the house owner was killed, became a target due to his cuteness. As soon as he arrived, he fell ill after being pushed into a dirty ditch. Meanwhile, people from the Jiang family came looking for the child.

Jiang family members, without genuine concern, instructed Yu Yangxun to gather all eligible children and showed him a photo of Jiang Li at one year old, asking if there was a similar child.

In an instant, Yu Yangxun felt a chill. Smiling, he denied having such a child, saying all the children were present. Another child mentioned, “Nineteen is sick.”

Startled, Yu Yangxun replied, “Yes, yes, there’s a sick one. I’ll get his hair.”

The Jiang family nodded and said, “Go ahead.”

At the door, Yu Yangxun, looking at two-year-old Nineteen, resembling the photo, momentarily wanted to strangle him. He overheard the visitors mentioning the Jiang family.

Before leaving the central district, there was a big fuss about the Omega from the Jiang family being an Alpha of modest means.

Was this their child?

Did the child return to the Jiang family after being lost?

Without a child, even the most affectionate AO couples would part ways! This was a perfect example. If the Jiang family knew the child was suffering in Yu Yangxun’s hands, they wouldn’t spare him.

Yu Yangxun laughed, hearing Nineteen softly calling him “Dad.” He raised an eyebrow, took a hair from the child’s neighboring bed, whose occupant had died the day before, and Nineteen was likely infected and wouldn’t make it.

But nineteen survived.

Yu Yangxun continued to observe, enjoying exposing Nineteen to bullying while playing economic news about the Jiang family.

This game lasted for four years, and when he got bored, the Federation announced the restart of compulsory education, requiring all children to attend school.

The school teachers were responsible, and Nineteen seemed to fear leaving the orphanage; once he entered school, he refused to come out.

During this time, the issue of fertility difficulties went from local discussions to a universal problem. The orphanage had almost no new children; as soon as they arrived, they were adopted.

In the sixth year, the orphanage merged into the higher level, and Yu Yangxun left the X5 district, living a carefree life with the donations he had accumulated over the years.

In his free time, he visited assisted reproduction departments, witnessing the agony of AOs unable to conceive.

The world was getting better, and Omegas could no longer bear children.

When Yu Yangxun was caught, he was working as a nurse in a private assisted reproduction facility in the central district, unknowingly causing harm to many.

Maxi said he didn’t take it seriously at first, but recently, Jiang Wanlan has been actively looking for people. Combined with the investigation into the orphanage, Maxi suddenly recalled the scene, realizing Nineteen’s identity might be special and that he might have led the bullying against Jiang Wanlan’s son.

He didn’t know if Nineteen remembered his childhood experiences or if he would seek revenge. Just as his foster parents’ business failed and the young master’s identity wasn’t worth clinging to, Maxi tried to provide clues to Jiang Wanlan. If it were true, he could get five million and leave Earth to become a star pirate. Star pirates had a strong appeal to naturally hostile individuals like Maxi, but becoming one had its barriers; without money, there was no one to guide the way.

During Yu Yangxun’s interrogation, he kept saying how good he was to the children, but there were just too many, and it was inevitable there would be oversights. It wasn’t until Maxi pointed out the hair substitution that he finally fell silent.

Cen Lang: “This is the result of the investigation into the orphanage director.” It took some time to investigate his motives and past, and Cen Lang had just received the report.

Jiang Li said those children were at most ten years old, asking him not to retaliate. Cen Lang listened to him and temporarily held back, but directly arrested the adults inside the orphanage with Yu Yangxun.

Initially thought to be a negligent and indifferent adult, the investigator found that Yu Yangxun had a radical personality and a somewhat performative personality, making them increasingly shocked as they delved into the investigation.

Before Nineteen arrived, another adorable child was bullied. After Nineteen’s arrival, that child found relief and shrank into a corner to lower their visibility, not daring to help Nineteen. Later, the child was adopted and became socially anxious and sensitive. It took several inquiries before the child spoke, recounting their experience in the orphanage.

“The cuter the child, the less the director wants them to be adopted. Nineteen never believed it, and he later became even more pitiful.”

The investigators confirmed that Yu Yangxun’s actions were not just negligence; those bullied had common characteristics. Yu Yangxun almost had a vendetta against Nineteen.

Jiang Wanlan’s emotions continued to collapse in this report.

Jiang Li, a child sent to the orphanage after a robbery, matched the characteristics of the landlord who took away the child; if the criminals had been more brutal, Jiang Li might not have survived.

Jiang Li fell ill, and the child in the next bed died.

Hair substitution, and the Jiang family members didn’t personally collect it as

 he instructed. Jiang Li was bullied, and Yu Yangxun used his news as background on television.

For a while, Jiang Wanlan frequently participated in financial interviews. To secure the family head position, his appearance became a contrast to the suffering of Jiang Li.

From this report, he even guessed the reason for the second oversight in collecting Jiang Li—because Nineteen was tortured into a “little lunatic,” deemed unworthy by Wang Shu, whom he trusted.

Jiang Wanlan gritted his teeth and called Wang Shu, “Wang Shu, when you went to the X5 district to find the child, do you remember there was a child named Nineteen in Hongye Orphanage? Others call him crazy; that’s my child!”

He didn’t really expect it. So many years had passed, and Wang Shu had missed so many children; how could he remember?

Wang Shu was stunned, and memories he should have forgotten suddenly jumped out. He remembered a child who loudly called him uncle. “Uncle! Uncle! I’m Nineteen…”

He took the child’s hair.

But as he relaxed before getting in the car, it was blown away by the wind.

The reason for being blown away might be the strong wind, or maybe the child was too dirty, with long, thin hair resembling that of a two-year-old mad girl.

The age didn’t match at all; the young master should be four years old at that time.

What Wang Shu remembered was when the young master was born, he had secretly gone to see him. A small bundle, smiling at him and allowing him to hold him.

“Sorry, Mr. Jiang, I remember Nineteen. He gave me his hair.”

“He’s excellent! You even praised the medicine he developed!” Jiang Wanlan smashed the phone.