In the evening, heavy rain poured down.
At the gate of Huayang Kindergarten—
A four to five-year-old boy stood against the wall, soaked to the skin, hiding from the rain with a backpack on his shoulders.
Nearby, several boys of the same age stood around him with umbrellas.
With a splash, the already drenched backpack on the boy was snatched away and thrown into the rain-soaked ground.
“No one wants this little money-loser, nya-nya-nya…”
“Gu Yan, your uncle and aunt aren’t coming to pick you up. They don’t want you anymore!”
“Born to a mother but without a father’s care. Don’t tell me you’re like your mom and crazy too!”
“Hahaha…”
Books and a pencil case spilled out of the backpack and scattered across the ground.
The pages were quickly soaked by the heavy rain.
Gu Yan stared darkly at the group in front of him, listening to their vicious words. He simply crouched down and began picking up the scattered items, putting them back into his backpack.
Before he could finish, someone kicked the bag away again.
Gu Yan watched as the pencil case rolled toward the road.
Just before it rolled into a puddle by the roadside, a pale, slender hand picked it up.
The newcomer was a girl holding a large black umbrella.
Under the umbrella, she wore a pink hooded sweatshirt, her fluffy bun tied high. The fair skin on her oval face looked even paler against the black umbrella, and her bright almond eyes were lively and striking.
She stepped forward.
Grabbing the boy who had just kicked the bag by his backpack, she pulled him back a few steps.
“Little kid, with a mouth this dirty, worms will grow inside it in the future.”
The boy who had just been acting so arrogantly instantly panicked and screamed.
“Who are you? What are you doing? Let go of me!”
Yun Su released his backpack and brushed her hands as if disgusted.
Seeing an adult arrive, the other boys lost their courage and scattered, running away in a hurry.
Yun Su turned around and looked at the little wretch who had just finished packing his things. She tilted her umbrella over him, shielding him from the wind and rain.
She let out a heavy sigh.
She had just arrived in this world, and already saw Gu Yan being bullied so badly.
Yun Su was a staff member of the transmigration bureau. Her mission was to save the villains in novels whose lives were written to be tragic by the author, preventing them from going down the path of evil and eventual ruin.
This was her first mission.
Gu Yan was her target. He was the illegitimate son of a wealthy family. His biological father refused to acknowledge him, and his mother suffered from mental illness and abused him since childhood.
When Gu Yan was five, his mother jumped to her death, and he was sent to live with his maternal uncle’s family. But for Gu Yan, it was only another abyss.
What those children just said did not come from nowhere. They must have learned it from adults.
From childhood, Gu Yan had been despised and bullied by his parents, relatives, and classmates.
Later in life, he grew into a cold and ruthless tycoon, the richest man in the country, dealing extremely harshly with those who once hurt him. None of them ended well. Yet in the end, he lost to the protagonist’s “main character aura,” his company went bankrupt, and he died in prison.
Sigh, such an extraordinary powerhouse still lost to plot armor.
No one is born evil. Gu Yan could have had a much better life.
Yun Su took the little wretch’s wet hand. “Let’s go, Sister will take you home.”
Since no one loved him or treated him well, she would.
Gu Yan looked up at the beautiful older sister and pulled his hand away. “Are you trying to abduct me?”
Huh? Abduct?
The fighting spirit Yun Su had just built up instantly collapsed.
As expected of a future big boss, even as a child he had such strong awareness.
Yun Su smiled, trying her best to appear gentle and harmless. “Sister just helped you. Do I look like a bad person to you?”
“I didn’t ask you to help me.” After saying that, Gu Yan turned and walked into the heavy rain.
His uncle’s family clearly did not want to take care of him. With such heavy rain, they did not even consider whether a five-year-old child could safely take a bus home alone.
This child was really hard to deal with.
But also truly heartbreaking.
Yun Su sighed, watching the stubborn small figure ahead, and followed him with her umbrella.
“It’s raining so heavily. I’ll go with you to the bus stop.”
Gu Yan looked at her but still refused to hold her hand. Instead, he walked side by side under the umbrella in silence.
Yun Su looked at the small figure beside her. The child was so short, yet he carried the heavy backpack steadily.
She reached out and lifted it. “Sister will help you carry it.”
The child flinched. “I can carry it myself.”
“But it’s wet. It’ll stick to your back and feel uncomfortable.” Yun Su ignored his refusal and kept holding the backpack as they walked.
Gu Yan had no choice but to follow her.
They arrived at the bus stop.
In a small county like Dongping County, a bus stop was just a signpost.
Yun Su did not know where Gu Yan lived. The novel never detailed his childhood route. “Do you know which bus to take?”
“Yes.” His uncle always came to pick him up by bus, so he remembered.
This was not the first time Gu Yan had been left behind. He was often forgotten at kindergarten. So he had long learned to find his own way home.
But Gu Yan had no money. His uncle and aunt never gave him pocket money. So in the past, when he went home alone, he could only walk. The journey from kindergarten to his uncle’s home took two hours, and he had walked it many times.
But since today there was this strange older sister insisting on sending him, he might as well take the bus.
Then Gu Yan thought of something. “Can you help me pay the fare? I’ll find a way to return it tomorrow.”
Even though his uncle and aunt never gave him money, he thought he could still manage to get one yuan for the bus fare later.
Yun Su froze. Looking at the child asking to borrow money, she was shocked. “You don’t have money?”
Gu Yan looked confused.
“Don’t tell me… you also don’t have money?”