Chapter 3205 — The Worry After the Feud
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Not long after Wei Zhao returned home, he received a call from Little Ken at the orphanage.
"Brother Lin, it's Little Ken!" Little Ken said. "The orphanage hasn't been doing well these past few days. We're stretched thin on funds, and Sister Xiaoke has been fretting over it endlessly…"
Wei Zhao picked up the phone. Hearing Little Ken's tale of woe, he felt rather helpless himself. Kang Jingming had reacted far too swiftly, rolling out an upgrade service for his medicinal cauldron straight away, so that Wei Zhao's own new upgrade could only be put on hold while he built the new peripherals.
But manufacturing and developing peripherals took time, and that created a gap. Sales of the medicinal cauldron had fallen sharply of late, and funds still had to be set aside for research and for building the cloud servers behind the peripherals. Naturally, less money found its way to the orphanage.
Yet construction on the orphanage had already begun—an arrow loosed cannot be recalled—and it could not stop now. In fact, Yu Xiaoke herself was surprised that Wei Zhao and Fat Lai had agreed to her charity group idea at all.
Yu Xiaoke's devotion to the children was genuine enough, but she was no fool. Wei Zhao's repeated help, given freely time and again, had grown more than she could bear. She knew she owed him more and more, and Yu Dake had hinted to her that Wei Zhao actually still had feelings for her—which left her thoroughly miserable.
But for the children's sake, Yu Xiaoke could only accept it and take things one step at a time. So even when Wei Zhao's funding shrank, she did not call to press or inquire, afraid that if she made the call, Wei Zhao would attach some improper condition.
In truth, Yu Xiaoke was rather puzzled herself. Was she really so wonderful? Wei Zhao had all that money, and pretty girls enough around him—was it worth spending such effort and expense on her? Yu Xiaoke did not think she was worth so much money.
Yet Wei Zhao's aid kept flowing in regardless, which baffled her and, at the same time, left her unable to pull away. She wanted to decline, but decline she could not.
Yu Xiaoke wanted to earn a little money to ease the pressure—a drop in the bucket, perhaps, but better than nothing. Yet apart from thieving, she truly did not know what to do.
Little Ken saw all of this with his own eyes, and could not help but dial Wei Zhao's number.
Wei Zhao thought it over, and then inspiration struck. He really did hit upon a good idea, and at once said, "I do have an idea. The famous star Xu Shilan happens to be here with me right now. If she were to hold a charity concert and donation drive, I imagine we'd raise some money—though not much, nothing compared to what Fat Lai gave before."
Fat Lai had handed the orphanage five hundred million all at once, whereas a concert and donation drive would bring in one or two hundred million at most. After all, a donation drive had just been held, so this one would not raise much (Yuren's public WeChat account yuren22; update times and the latest plot shared by Yuren at any time).
(To be continued,