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

The ground was cold, and Yang Huiyun felt that this was not good.

But Shen Yan persisted, which was rare.

So Shen Yan is now lying on two thick mattresses, and although she is sleeping on the floor, she doesn't feel cold at all.

The moon was bright and the stars were few; the pale moonlight streamed through the window.

Xie Yan, however, had trouble sleeping.

Suddenly, a sound came from beside the bed.

"Xie Yan".

Shen Yan's thin voice rang out softly, "What's it like going to school?"

Xie Yan, who was called by his name, was about to sit up and give him a good talking-to, but she paused when she heard the second half of the sentence.

"...I'm very happy, and I'll be able to make a lot of friends. I'll go back to school after your leg heals."

"Oh."

Upon receiving the answer, Shen Yan showed no reaction. He wrapped himself tightly in the blanket, with only his head showing.

Xie Yan turned over and lay on her side, moving closer to the edge of the bed to look at him. She saw Shen Yan staring blankly at the ceiling, seemingly lost in thought.

Thinking this through, Xie Yan asked the question.

"I want to learn to read."

Xie Yan wasn't too surprised to hear this. It was probably because Shen Yan had been bored at home lately and could only read comic books, only understanding the pictures but not the words.

Children's thoughts are easy to guess. Xie Yan smiled and said, "Go to sleep, I'll teach you tomorrow."

Have a good night's sleep.

The next day was a Saturday, and Xie Yan woke up at eight o'clock.

Turning her head to look at the bedside, she saw that the floor was clean. Shen Yan had obviously woken up earlier than her and had already tidied up the bedding.

As I got out of bed, I saw Shen Yan sitting at the dining table drinking milk, with breakfast laid out on the table.

The dining table in the house is near the balcony, where the sunlight is very strong right now.

The warm and gentle morning sunlight shone on Shen Yan's delicate face, as if it were coated with a layer of gold. Her fair skin was as translucent as jade, making her look exceptionally beautiful.

Xie Yan couldn't help but take a second look.

The beautiful Shen Yan spoke up, "Auntie said she's going to set up her stall again this afternoon to buy ingredients, so we'll have to eat breakfast ourselves."

Since Wang Litao's incident last week, Yang Huiyun has asked Xie Yan for a week off and has not gone out to set up her stall herself, but has stayed at home to take care of Xie Yan for a week.

Xie Yan is doing well now and will be going back to school after this weekend, so Yang Huiyun will continue to run her business, since she still needs to earn money to support her family.

Xie Yan nodded knowingly, and after washing up, she had breakfast with Shen Yan.

She ate quietly, then remembered something and tapped the system.

What's the current situation with the director of that orphanage? Has he been arrested?

She has been worried about this matter.

If the entire supply chain of that orphanage isn't eradicated, more children will continue to be persecuted.

She had deliberately left her phone at Wang Litao's house, hiding it under the carpet and recording it all night.

However, when listening to the recording later, I found that there was a lot of background noise, and it was not very clear. I could only vaguely hear Wang Litao saying "very satisfied" on the phone, but I couldn't hear anything else.

Xie Yan handed over the phone recording to the police, saying that the phone she left behind had accidentally recorded some sound, and she didn't know if it could be used.

The police were able to find out that the person who spoke to Wang Litao that day was Xu Mingli, the director of the orphanage.

Although Wang Litao insisted that all his adoptions were legal, the police immediately launched an in-depth investigation, and the kitchen basement mentioned by Xie Yan was their most shocking discovery.

Once the victim was discovered, the perpetrators were also identified. The police extracted bodily fluids from the victim for analysis and arrested all those involved in the misconduct.

Surprisingly, one of the children in the facility was a minor.

It truly chilled everyone to the bone.

"He was detained for investigation, but has been released due to insufficient evidence," the system replied.

Upon hearing this, Xie Yan immediately frowned and took an extra big bite of her steamed bun.

[Insufficient evidence? What about the voice recorder I left at the orphanage? Did it record anything?]

That's right, Xie Yan secretly put the black voice recorder she bought in the system store into the director's office of the orphanage.

She managed to sneak out and be released on the third day after Wang Litao was arrested. She searched room by room to find Xu Mingli's office, and finally climbed through the window into the dean's office.

I didn't know such details, I'm not a recording pen.

【…】

Xie Yan suddenly felt a little anxious.

Shen Yan is only staying at her house temporarily.

When Yang Huiyun communicated with the police earlier, the police said they would investigate the case first, and if there were no problems with the orphanage, they would send her back to find a new adopter.

But should we send it back?

Wouldn't that be a complete disaster? Wouldn't Xie Yan have wasted all her time?

Xie Yan frowned and looked serious, not noticing that Shen Yan kept looking up at her from time to time.

She was wearing a pale yellow nightgown, her hair was loose and disheveled, just like when she had just woken up.

His disheveled appearance and serious expression seemed quite mismatched.

The porridge in the bowl was almost gone, but Xie Yan was still spooning it into her mouth, lost in thought.

Breakfast was eaten in complete silence.

Xie Yan came out after washing the dishes, wanting to say something, only to find that Shen Yan was no longer at the table.

He had already jumped onto the sofa by himself, still looking down at the comic book, and now he had a pencil in his hand that he didn't know where he had gotten it from.

When Xie Yan saw the pen, she remembered that she had promised Shen Yan last night to teach him to read.

The comic book contains a very old-fashioned adventure story, and the edges of the pages are already curled up from being turned so many times.

Inside the cover, on the page with the table of contents, Xie Yan's name was written in large characters, and Shen Yan was studying those two characters.

"Xie Yan," Shen Yan said without looking up, her voice flat, "what does your name mean?"

He speaks in a cold and indifferent manner, never showing any emotional fluctuation. If someone didn't know him, they might mistake him for a miniature version of a domineering CEO.

Xie Yan wouldn't tolerate him.

Now that they were much more familiar with each other, she no longer held back and reached out to pinch Shen Yan's cheek.

She swore it wasn't because the feel of her face-pinching yesterday was so good that she wanted to do it again.

Xie Yan had just tied up her messy hair to make washing the dishes easier. Now her ponytail hung obediently behind her head, revealing her smooth and full forehead.

She pinched Shen Yan's face and leaned closer, saying, "Don't be disrespectful. I'm two years older than you, so you have to call me 'older sister'."

Shen Yan visibly pursed her lips, then said "Oh," before continuing to ask, "What does 'Yan' mean? Is it this character?"

He pointed to his finger, and Xie Yan looked away, only to see Shen Yan pointing to the character "Yan" in her name written above the table of contents of the comic book.

There were just some other characters around that one, lightly imitated with a pencil.

The person writing dared not exert force, and the pencil marks were so faint that they could not be seen unless one looked closely.

No wonder Xie Yan only noticed it now; she had never paid attention to it before.

Xie Yan still remembered answering Shen Yan's question, "Yes, that's the character. Yan means beautiful and wonderful."

Shen Yan nodded knowingly, then winked at Xie Yan and asked if he could try writing it.

Xie Yan readily agreed.

They didn't bring a new notebook, since the comic book was already quite old and probably no one else would read it except Shen Yan. So the two of them simply found a blank space and had Shen Yan practice writing in it.

It's called writing, but it's really just copying what's written. Shen Yan mostly looks at the original characters and then draws them stroke by stroke.

His pen-holding posture was also incorrect, so Xie Yan corrected him, first demonstrating and then gently adjusting Shen Yan's slender fingers.

I probably wrote it dozens of times, and the character "妍" was written so well that... at least it was recognizable as a character.

Looking at the ugly, caterpillar-like handwriting, Xie Yan couldn't help but laugh.

The contrast between the seemingly quiet child and the terrible handwriting is undeniably amusing.

After practicing for a while, Shen Yan stopped.

Xie Yan thought he was tired of writing and didn't want to write anymore, but unexpectedly he suddenly asked a question.

"How do you write my name? What does my '厌' mean?"

Xie Yan's smile froze.

Coincidentally, both of their names contain the character "yan," but their meanings are completely different.

It's hard to imagine what kind of mindset Shen Yinshuang had when she gave Shen Yan such a name.

A child's name often embodies a family's most direct expectations for the new life. Some people search through dictionaries to find a good name, while others even pay fortune tellers to find an auspicious name.

The name Shen Yan is almost a naked expression of emotion.

Because he was disliked, and because Shen Yinshuang hated him, he was named "Yan" (meaning "dislike").

It's ridiculously casual.