I transmigrated into the villain's white moonlight, but the protagonist is my brother.

After seeing the police off, the dean smiled and said to Shen Yan, "My surname is Xu. You can call me Aunt Xu or Aunt Dean, or even Mom Dean. I'll be very happy."

She touched Shen Yan's hair. Shen Yan frowned and flinched slightly, but did not dodge.

The orphanage has several offices and a dining hall on the first floor, and the dormitories are on the second floor.

The dormitory conditions weren't very good. Eight people shared a room, four of which were bunk beds. It was small and crowded, and there was a stuffy smell.

Dean Xu led Shen Yan to the dormitory, where there was an empty bed.

When the door opened, all seven children were sitting quietly on their beds, behaving very well and without making a fuss.

When the room door opened, all the children looked at the director in unison and said, "Hello, Director Mom!"

Dean Xu smiled and nodded: "This is Shen Yan, the new classmate I told you about before. He will be living with you from now on. Say hello."

Upon hearing this, the children obediently introduced themselves.

"Hello Shen Yan, my name is Zhang Yu."

"Hello Shen Yan, my name is Wang Chao."

"Hello……"

Dean Xu was very pleased with everyone's well-behaved manners. She patted Shen Yan on the shoulder and said, "Why don't you introduce yourself to everyone?"

"..."

She was met with silence.

The children on the bed stared at each other, none of them daring to utter a sound.

Then I turned to look at the newcomer. He had a cold face, and his dark eyes were completely calm, without any emotion or even a slight ripple. I didn't even see him blink.

An inorganic, inhuman feeling made others feel very uncomfortable; to put it simply, it was a bit creepy.

Dean Xu's expression remained unchanged, still smiling: "Shen Yan? Why aren't you saying anything?"

The atmosphere had become somewhat tense, and the children inside were too afraid to even breathe.

Although the headmistress always seems to be smiling, anyone who dares to upset her will inevitably go hungry.

This starvation would continue until the headmistress calmed down, and she would also lock disobedient children in solitary confinement, which was dark, cold, and particularly frightening.

This newcomer knows nothing, he's bound to suffer a bit.

He can forget about getting any food today; he'll just have to go hungry.

As expected, Shen Yan still didn't speak in the end.

Dean Xu's expression darkened slightly.

The police had just spoken with her. She knew about Shen Yan's past abuse and that he might have some unusual personality traits. Now it seemed that was indeed the case.

It's hard to sell someone with such a bad personality; who would want to pay money for a mute person who can't speak?

But Shen Yan was outstanding in appearance. His face was cute and beautiful, a hundred times more eye-catching than the ugly girls in her yard. Even the few girls in the yard were not as good-looking as him.

It's such a waste to have such a beautiful piece.

Dean Xu decided to give this newcomer a good talking-to.

There is ample time.

Shen Yan's bed was right by the door; it was a lower bunk.

This location has poor lighting, is far from the window, and the door blocks half of the bed when it's open, making it the worst spot in the room.

However, Shen Yan didn't seem to care.

He struggled to make the bed and spread out the blankets; his small body found it very difficult to do such work.

Now that Dean Xu had left, the others in the room stopped pretending to be sensible and well-behaved.

In terms of age, Shen Yan is not the youngest, but in terms of height and physique, she is the smallest and thinnest in the room.

The oldest is Wang Chao, who is twelve years old this year. He is sitting on the upper bunk by the window, and his previous well-behaved demeanor has changed, and he is chatting with the person opposite him.

"See? The new guy can't talk. He's not only mentally ill, he's also mute."

"He's probably an idiot. Who would want to adopt someone like him?"

"Who says otherwise? If I were him, I'd just hang myself, hahaha!"

The group huddled together chatting and having fun, while also observing Shen Yan. Seeing that he had no reaction at all, they became somewhat bored.

"I hope he's deaf. It's really bad luck if someone is both deaf and mute!"

Wang Chao got angry just looking at Shen Yan's pretty face. If such a good-looking face were on him, he wouldn't still be twelve years old and not yet adopted.

So what if he's a little ugly? He's the strongest person in the whole hospital! Those families who look down on him are simply blind!

"Li Mingming, go grab his ear and yell twice. I want to see if he's really deaf." Wang Chao gestured with his chin towards another child in the lower bunk.

Li Mingming, who was called out, jumped up from the bed like a skinny monkey and ran straight towards Shen Yan.

Clearly, Li Mingming has done his fair share of such acts of aiding and abetting evil.

Just as Li Mingming's hand was about to grab Shen Yan's ear, Shen Yan dodged to the side, and Li Mingming missed and fell onto Shen Yan's bed.

"hahahahahahahahaha!!"

"Li Mingming, are you even capable?! You got beaten by a little brat, hahahahahahaha!!!"

The constant laughter made Li Mingming anxious, and his temper flared up. He stood up and used all his strength.

He pushed Shen Yan to the ground.

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the other side.

After seeing Shen Yan off, Yang Huiyun and Xie Yan had nothing else to do, so they went to the market, bought some groceries, and went home to cook.

They plan to start selling stir-fried rice cakes on Monday, and Xie Yan's classmates will be their first customers.

That was her original intention when she went to school.

There's no one easier to appease than a classmate. Xie Yan is popular in class; she only needs to say a word, and everyone will definitely give it a try.

Moreover, the stir-fried rice cakes have a sweet and sour flavor, which is perfect for elementary school students, so there's no worry about them selling out.

Yang Huiyun spent the entire weekend scouting out locations to see where there would be a lot of foot traffic, but in the end she listened to Xie Yan and decided to sell at the school gate.

Xie Yan obediently did her homework for two days, ignoring everything else.

She didn't ask the system how Shen Yan was doing at the orphanage, and the system wisely refrained from asking.

Xie Yan, on the other hand, felt a bit irritable, though she couldn't explain why; she felt both annoyed and frustrated.

She called out to the system: "Let's play Gomoku!"

System: 【!!! You're willing to stay with me!!!】

The system itself isn't very high-level, there aren't many built-in games, and since it's not time for the main story to start yet, there are no quests to do, making the system incredibly boring.

The system can only play Gomoku with itself every day, which is truly empty, lonely and cold.

Xie Yan: [Stop talking nonsense, are you going to log off or not?]

System: [Next! Next! Next! I'll start a game right now!!]

The system is an intelligent system after all. In the human-machine battle, Xie Yan was a little distracted and lost three games in a row.

The system was overjoyed! [All that practice I've had these past few days wasn't for nothing! Hard work always pays off! Success only comes to those who are prepared!!]

【………】

Xie Yan was even more annoyed. "Let's play Go!"

System: [I'm not downloading!]

Because the system only knows how to play Gomoku, hehe.

Xie Yan just wanted to roll her eyes.

But she just let out a long sigh, then collapsed onto the bed and buried her face in the blankets.

After a while, I rolled around on the bed several times, feeling agitated.

She always knew exactly what the little villain had experienced in his childhood.

The orphanage in this county is a completely heartless orphanage. Girls who are similar in appearance are "adopted" by rich people, who then claim to be donating money to the orphanage, but the money ends up in their own pockets.

And if nothing unexpected happens, Shen Yan will still be bullied, beaten, and starved in the orphanage.

None of that is the most important thing. The most important thing is that Shen Yan will later be taken in and "adopted" by a rich pervert.

The more Xie Yan thought about these things, the more terrifying they became. She tried her best not to think about them, but she just couldn't control herself.

System: [What's wrong? Are you worried about Shen Yan?]

The system, having just won the game, was clearly in a better mood: [Don't worry, I've recently saved up half my energy. I believe we'll be able to reach the right time soon, so don't rush!]

Xie Yan stopped moving again.

She lay on the bed pretending to be a corpse.

She simply couldn't understand why she had to endure this kind of mental torment.

Either don't let her see these hardships, then she can pretend she doesn't know.

Either she sees it, or she's allowed to do something.

This feeling of seeing things but being unable to do anything about them is driving her crazy.

In the end, Xie Yan actually fell asleep in this state of mind.

Xie Yan was startled awake when she was woken up for school on Monday the following day.

"Yan Yan, Mom will set up a stall at your school gate at noon today."

Yang Huiyun is about to start her first day as a street vendor, and she is a little excited and nervous.

Xie Yan nodded: "Don't worry, Mom, everything will be alright."