"Xiao Fei, good evening. Have you eaten yet?"
The kind and amiable voice of Shen Jianshan came from the other end of the phone.
The old director had long reached retirement age, but unable to set his mind at ease regarding the children, he had continued to diligently manage the orphanage's affairs over the years.
"I'm eating right now, Director. The expansion of the orphanage should be almost finished, right? Is there a problem somewhere?" Qin Fei asked.
"No, no, the construction has been progressing well and is almost wrapping up. Xiao Fei, on behalf of the children, I want to thank you and your brother."
The old director spoke earnestly. After a brief pause, he continued, "The thing is, I'm calling you today because there's something I need to inform you about."
"We think we've found your parents..."
Hearing the voice on the phone, Qin Fei froze, her chopsticks slipping from her hand and clattering to the floor. It took her quite a while to react. "Director... is... is what you're saying true?"
As she spoke, her eyes grew moist, tears welling up within them.
"It's true. Every child who has stayed in our orphanage has left behind something for DNA matching, and you and your brother are no exception. Just two days ago, a middle-aged couple came looking. We gave them a strand of hair you left behind back then for them to do a paternity test..."
Shen Jianshan explained the entire process in detail.
After listening, Qin Fei took a deep breath and replied, "Alright... okay... then I'll head over there tomorrow... yes, I'll go in the morning!"
After a few more words, she finally hung up the phone.
Qin Ning and the others had also put down their chopsticks and were looking at her.
Qin Fei then recounted everything Shen Jianshan had said on the phone, word for word, to Qin Ning and the rest.
"This is a good thing. Why are you crying?"
Qin Ning smiled and wiped away her tears, feeling a pang of heartache for her.
The two had grown up together in the orphanage. Although Qin Ning and Qin Fei were not biological siblings, they had depended on each other for survival for many years.
Now, learning that Qin Fei had likely found her biological parents, Qin Ning was naturally happy for her.
"Yes, Xiao Fei, this is a great thing. You should be happy," Su Xingwan and the others gathered around to comfort her.
Qin Fei took a deep breath. "I'm not unhappy, it's just... suddenly getting news about my parents... it caught me off guard. Plus, I have absolutely no impression of them and don't know them at all... I'm scared..."
"Most importantly, I want to know why they abandoned me back then."
At this point, tears streamed down from her eyes once again.
...
The next day, early in the morning.
Qin Ning and his group took a commercial van and arrived at the orphanage gates bright and early.
Just as they stepped out of the vehicle, they saw Director Shen Jianshan already waiting there.
Behind him stood a middle-aged couple, looking to be around fifty, though their heads were already full of white hair.
The couple was dressed very plainly, looking like authentic farmers.
Upon spotting Qin Fei in the crowd, the middle-aged woman couldn't hold back her tears. She walked toward Qin Fei, reaching out for a hug.
Qin Fei instinctively wanted to dodge, but ultimately she didn't pull away. Instead, she also reached out and embraced the woman.
"Xiao Fei..."
At this moment, the middle-aged man also walked over, his eyes equally moist.
His legs seemed impaired; his right leg appeared injured, causing him to limp as he walked.
"Dad... Mom..."
After taking a deep breath, Qin Fei finally called out the two words she had never spoken since she was a child.
On the way here, she had thought a lot.
What she wanted to know most was why her parents had abandoned her back then.
She desperately wanted to interrogate them.
But upon actually meeting them and seeing their current state, Qin Fei simply couldn't bear to blame them for anything.
Perhaps she hadn't truly been abandoned after all.
There was very likely some hidden hardship behind it all.
"Xiao Fei, let's go sit inside the orphanage for a bit. We can talk slowly once we sit down," Shen Jianshan said.
"Okay."
Qin Fei agreed, and then entered the orphanage with everyone else.
Inside an office, the group took their seats.
Afterward, Qin Fei's parents began to recount the events of the past.
Her father, Tang Zhengwei, and mother, Sun Qiuqiong, were both genuine farmers from the neighboring Shuishan City.
Back then, Sun Qiuqiong gave birth to Qin Fei in Liu City. After a smooth delivery, the couple stayed in the hospital for only a few days before preparing to return to Shuishan City.
Unexpectedly, they ran into a thug at the train station.
It was a chaotic era. The thug not only robbed them of all their money but also snatched their daughter.
Tang Zhengwei's leg was injured during his struggle against the thug, leaving him crippled to this day.
Although the thug was quickly caught, while fleeing from the police, he couldn't run fast enough while carrying Qin Fei, so he casually tossed her away in some unknown location.
The police later searched along the thug's escape route multiple times, but they were unable to find Qin Fei.
Tang Zhengwei and his wife never gave up searching for their child over the years. Who could have known that this search would last for twenty years!
Combined with Director Shen's description, it was revealed that Qin Fei had been dropped off by a young couple when she was nearly a year old.
That couple were just ordinary workers. They claimed to have found Qin Fei by the roadside and originally wanted to raise her, but later, due to factory layoffs, their lives became difficult.
Left with no choice, they could only send Qin Fei to the orphanage.
After learning the entire story, Qin Fei cried.
To her, as long as she wasn't abandoned, everything else was acceptable.
The family of three hugged each other and cried for a long time.
Qin Ning stepped forward and said, "Xiao Fei, it's almost noon. The director has had some food prepared, let's go eat something first."
"Okay."
Qin Fei nodded. Finally coming back to her senses, she hurriedly introduced him to Tang Zhengwei and his wife, "Dad, Mom, this is my brother, Qin Ning. We grew up together in the orphanage. After leaving, we continued to rely on each other to survive up until now. Over the years, my brother has helped me a lot."
"Good, good..."
Tang Zhengwei and Sun Qiuqiong excitedly shook Qin Ning's hand. "Xiao Ning, thank you. Thank you for taking care of Xiao Fei all these years. Since you are Xiao Fei's brother, from now on, you are our child too."
"Uh..."
Qin Ning was taken aback, feeling somewhat like he was being taken advantage of.
However, he still smiled and called out, "Dad, Mom."
"Ah, good, good!"
The couple responded happily and then said, "Let's go, we'll eat first and talk while we eat."
"No rush."
Qin Ning smiled and glanced at Tang Zhengwei's leg. "Dad, your leg is inconvenient. I'll treat it for you first. It won't be too late to eat after it's healed."
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
