After my epilepsy, the entire entertainment industry shunned me like a snake or a scorpion.

Su Jiu's gaze fell from Su Ma to the small table behind her. Thick materials were piled up as high as a rockery. The table looked bumpy and had traces left by brushes and knives.

This table had been here when she was very young. In her memory, this table was clearly new and beautiful.

In the blink of an eye, twenty years have passed.

She lowered her eyes and put away the complicated thoughts in her mind. Only here could she have some time to relax.

Su Ma looked around the office, picking and choosing, and finally brought an old-looking chair for her to sit on, and even considerately put a cushion on it.

Looking at the girl in bright and beautiful clothes, Su's mother was afraid that Su Jiu would dislike her, so she hurriedly said, "Sit down, child. I bought this cushion a few days ago and I haven't used it yet."

Su Jiu heard the cautiousness in Su Ma's words, smiled at her, then sat down, brushing her skirt.

"Mother Su, long time no see..."

"It's been a long time, probably about ten years."

Mother Su pushed her reading glasses, and her kind face showed concern for her children.

"Ah."

When I left the welfare home in junior high school, I looked at the tall buildings outside and swore that I would make a name for myself. I didn't expect that my life has been so miserable over the years.

"How have you been over the past few years?"

Mother Su took Su Jiu's hand and wanted to reminisce with her.

"I'm doing fine, mom, you don't have to worry about me."

Su Jiu didn't want to make Su Ma worry, so he made up an excuse.

"You kid..." As someone who had been through this before, how could she not tell whether Su Jiu was doing well or not? Even with a thick layer of makeup on, it was not difficult for her to see that Su Jiu looked haggard.

There was nothing much to say, so Su Ma could only hold Su Jiu's hand and caress it tenderly.

"Mom, I came back today to talk to you about something."

After asking a few random questions about the welfare home's operations over the years, she got straight to the point.

"What is it?"

"Where did you find me back then?"

Because so many years had passed and Su Ma was old, it was a bit difficult for her to think about these things now. Su Jiu did not urge her and just waited for her to recall slowly. He then stood up and walked towards the only bookshelf behind him.

"May I take a look at it?"

When she got closer, Su Ji turned around and asked Su Ma, but Su Ma was still recalling what happened before and waved her hand to signal her to look at it herself.

There are seven layers of bookshelf. Because they are classified by time, Su Jiu easily found the information and files from that year on the last layer.

Thinking about it, she came here relatively early. There was very little information about children of her age. After Su Jiu took out her own information, she stood there and flipped through a few pages.

The back of the last page was circled with a blue marker.

Seeing that she hadn't moved for a long time, Su Ma walked over and got closer. When she saw the mark she had made on her back, she slapped her forehead in annoyance.

"I remember now. We found you at the entrance of the orphanage. When we found you, you were covered in wounds and were still very young, so we thought you were abandoned by your parents. We took you to report the case, but there was no record of your identity information and we couldn't find your parents. When we asked you about it, you just shook your head, so I brought you back..."

"You didn't talk at the time, so the birthday you registered was the first day you came to the orphanage. Your age was changed to match the ages of the other children."

So who was it that took the wrong baby away from the hospital?

Su Ma thought Su Jiu wanted to find her biological parents, so she sighed and said, "So many years have passed, why bother with these unfounded feelings?"

What Su's mother didn't say was that she hadn't looked for her child for all these years, and hadn't even registered her child. It was probably because her family favored boys over girls and sent the child to an orphanage to fend for herself.

When Su Jiu was picked up by her at the door of the welfare home, she took the child for a check-up immediately.

After all, the child was covered with wounds and didn't say anything, so she thought the child had some incurable disease and his family had to abandon him. But after checking, she found that Su Jiu had no disease except some external injuries.

A healthy girl was beaten up and came to the door of the welfare home timidly and speechlessly with bruises all over her body. The half-grown children had burns, frostbite and calluses on their hands. You can tell what happened with just your toes.

Since its opening, most of the people adopted by the welfare home are healthy girls. Even if there are boys, many of them have some physical illnesses and were sent here because their families cannot afford the treatment.

Su Ma didn't know how to persuade Su Jiu, so she raised her hand and touched her head lovingly.

"Don't cry, kid. Your mother doesn't want you. Mother Su does."

Only then did Su Jiu realize that he was crying in front of Su Ma.

"Mom Su, I found my biological parents."

Her voice choked for a moment, and it took her a long time to organize her words before she spoke.

"found it!?"

Su's mother was surprised for a moment, but when she saw that Su Jiu didn't look happy at all, she immediately changed her expression to one of worry.

"Don't they like you and treat you badly?"

"No..." Su Jiu shook his head and explained, "They don't know of my existence yet."

"Good girl, don't cry..." Su's mother took out her handkerchief and gently wiped the tears from Su Jiu's face. "You won't be pretty if you cry."

Seeing that Su Ma cared about her so much, Su Jiu held back her tears for a long time and responded in a sullen voice.

"Mom, I'm not a good kid. I've done a lot of wrong things."

Su Jiu threw himself into Su Ma's arms, hugged her with his eyes closed, and his whole body relaxed.

It was as if God was playing a huge joke on me.

"What happened?"

She didn't have the courage to tell what was happening to her these days.

“Will this welfare home continue to operate in the future?”

Su Jiu didn't want to say this and make Su Ma worry, so he abruptly changed the subject.

"I'm afraid the current funds won't last much longer. I've already spent a lot of money on the children's medical treatment over the years. Now you can see that I may not even be able to pay Lao Wang's salary, let alone continue to run the business."

The welfare home has taken in only about thirty children in recent years, many of whom have physical disabilities, and hiring caregivers and seeing doctors are considerable expenses.

The welfare homes today are already at the end of their rope and are struggling to survive.

Su Jiu took out a card from his bag and shoved it into Su Ma's hand in a tough manner: "There are three million in it, take it and use it to treat the children.

If the welfare home can no longer be run, it will be converted into a nursing home. This is your years of hard work, and I don’t want to see it disappear in the north city.”

Whether you use it to treat illnesses or to renovate an orphanage, let it continue to exist.