Su Yuchen and Xin i were about to climb the stairs when a kid knocked on the office door. He slightly opened the door and looked at Mr. Ling.
"Sir, can I please use your computer? I have to do my project." He asked.
"Sure, sure. You can do your work, you rember the rules right?"
The kid nodded his head and made his way towards the computer in the office. Xin i and Su Yuchen watched the kid before making their way up the stairs, in the balcony.
A small balcony was located on the first floor. From there, a person can have a full view of the orphanage. They could watch the kids but kids couldn't watch them.
Xin i took a seat on the already arranged seats and motioned for Su Yuchen to sit.
"You really wouldn't go down to et the kids?" Su Yuchen asked her with confusion.
"I told you, I don't want to give false hope to kids. I don't want to break their hopes that I will visit them regularly. With my schedule, I can't say if I will et them regularly or not."
Xin i stood up from the chair and walked toward the glass which was surrounding the balcony. She looked down from the glass and a smile left her lips when she saw the kids who were playing with each other.
"I still rember, after four months of opening the orphanage, I couldn't co to et them due to so of my commitnts. Mister Ling had called telling that kids were denying eating until they et ."
"They had beco addictive to my presence on every Sunday. At that mont, I had beco afraid. So I decided to make my distance with them. I don't want them to get too much attached to ."
"You know, most of them have witnessed death of their parents. They were loners when they ca here. Naturally, they are bound to get attached with others and they got attached with . I had seen many kids getting attached with other kids to make them delusional that they are not alone.
After losing their family, they are not ready to part away from others and I am not strong enough to see their pain."
Upon hearing her, Su Yuchen rembered the words of his psychiatrist. She had also said sothing like that. Was he also like those kids, clinging to Mian to console himself that he wasn't alone?
Xin i smiled when from the window she saw how kids ran toward Mr. Ling and other guardians who ca in the orphanage with gifts in their hands.
"Look, how happy they are to get the gifts." Xin i pointed out from the window.
Su Yuchen also looked out from the window and a smile broke down on his face. "I rember it very well that I also used to run like them to get the best gift. There were many visitors in our orphanage so it was usual for us to get gifts. We always looked forward to such visitors."
He dazedly looked out from the window. His hand was placed fondly on the glass. His eyes were soft. Xin i smiled when she saw him.
They both watched the kids, looking at their new toys with excitent in their eyes. They also saw so of them stalking after Mr. Ling to see the toys in another bag.
"Doesn't everyone have a bike here?" Su Yuchen questioned when he saw many kids were paddling their bikes while so were looking at them with longing eyes.
"I am planning to buy new bikes with my first installnt of the movie. You see, I have opened this orphanage with my savings and I had already used it." Xin i replied.
"I also plan to buy a property behind this orphanage. I want to expand this orphanage. I want to build a swimming pool, ga room, and a skating rink. But for all that I need money."
Su Yuchen nodded his head upon hearing her. "What about computers? I have seen that they don't have a computer and uses the computer of Mr. Ling in case of need."
"I know," Xin i sighed. "I also have a computer lab in my mind. But you know, buying and then maintaining a computer is very expensive. I had a computer lab built in this orphanage but it's empty."
Xin i shrugged her shoulders. "Once I had planned a charity function for the orphanage, where the nas of donor were to remain anonymous. Funny thing, everyone was ready to join the charity event but when they knew their nas wouldn't be written anywhere, most of them stepped back. I didn't get many donations from that charity."
Aloofness appeared in the eyes of Xin i. She rembered Qian Fan was also one to step back.
She just didn't want any na of donor for this orphanage. She wanted this orphanage to belong to those kids only. She didn't want the computer lab to belong to so mister xyz but to the kids.
"Xin i, what if I donate the computers? I promise I don't want my na on anything. I will be happy to help them. If you want I can help you with other things." Su Yuchen suggested. There was an excitent in his eyes.
"Su Yuchen you don't...…."
Xin i was about to deny but Su Yuchen cut her off. "I already have enough money and helping you will not affect . I rarely do charity in a fear of misuse of my money. But here I know my money will be in good hands. So why shouldn't I do so charitable work?" He pleaded and looked at her with desperation.
Xin i smiled and nodded her head to Su Yuchen. Both Xin i and Su Yuchen watched the kids play. There was a calm smile on their faces. Su Yuchen could relate himself to the kids and wanted to do sothing for them which he didn't get in his orphanage.
Xin i also had a lot of plans in her mind. She also wanted to do a lot for those kids.
After watching the kids to their satisfaction, they made their way down the stairs. In the office Xin i inford Mister Ling about the computer and he was happy to hear the news. Su Yuchen promised him to send brand new computers by the next day.
"Xin i, personally I suggest you to et the kids," Su Yuchen spoke out of a sudden. "You can save them from the pain now, but what about in the future? They should learn how to let go. They should know about the pain of losing soone."
His voice held the pain. "Look at I had spent my whole ti in an orphanage with Mian. I got attached to her. It was so difficult for to part away from her. I had thrown tantrums when my family had co to claim . I wasn't ready to go with them.
I wasn't ready to bear the pain of letting go of my orphanage and my friends."
"You don't want sa thing to happen with the kids in the orphanage," he stopped and looked at Xin i. "Next ti, you should et them and play with them. Let others et them. Let them get attached to others. Let them bear the pain. They will beco strong only if they can bear the pain.
It's my suggestion, otherwise, do whatever you think."
Xin i nodded her head and followed behind him. They both made their way towards their cars.
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Happy Independence day and Happy Bhai Luto divas my Indian friends!! :)
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