The children eagerly crowded around. Compared with those intimidating medical devices, toys were naturally much more appealing to them!
But as more children gathered, the situation gradually began to get out of control—especially with kids who had not yet fully learned how to behave in society.
Seeing this, an employee from the Group’s Public Relations Department moved forward to help, but Qiuyun quickly pulled them back.
Jiang Chuling stood on top of a box and called out to organize everyone. “No fighting! We’ll line up by age. The younger ones go in front, and the older ones behind. Among children of the same age, girls go first and boys behind them. Anyone who doesn’t follow the rules won’t get a toy from me!”
The last time Jiang Chuling had said that only those who beat her would receive a reward, she had actually given prizes only to the children who won.
Having learned from that experience, everyone knew that she was a girl of her word. They obediently lined up as instructed and waited eagerly for their turn to receive a toy.
And so the scene became this: in the distance, staff members carried various kinds of medical equipment, while in the foreground, Jiang Chuling helped the children at the welfare home choose gifts.
The image was harmonious, heartwarming, and highly cinematic. The photographers’ cameras clicked nonstop.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Ge, who had no way to blend into the scene and had even been told to step back two paces so she wouldn’t block the composition, stood outside the crowd with an exceptionally grim expression.
She had not wanted to come in the first place, but the little troublemaker had insisted that there was no adult at home available to accompany her, and Master had simply waved a hand and ordered her to come along.
Fine, she had come. But after arriving, the little troublemaker completely ignored her and went off to mingle with that group of parentless children. The cameras followed her everywhere, too!
That little troublemaker had clearly been born to torment her!
It was not hard to imagine how pleased Master would be with the little troublemaker’s performance this time. She was generous, bold, approachable, and a natural leader!
What a difference between people. Her own granddaughter, who had been raised by her daughter-in-law and had such narrow horizons, could never compare. Why couldn’t she have had even half of this girl’s awareness?
The Group’s Public Relations Department had, of course, prepared the event schedule far more professionally than Qiuyun, a complete amateur.
After handing out the toys, it was time to plant trees in the welfare home’s backyard.
The children worked together and planted more than ten trees. They helped one another, and under Jiang Chuling’s direction, they completed the entire task smoothly.
Once the tree planting was over, the white cloth on the wall had also been spread out and hung flat.
Everyone pressed their dirty hands into paint and then onto the cloth.
Palmprints of different sizes and shapes, in vivid colors, gradually filled the white cloth.
This meaningful, warm, laughter-filled charity event had officially come to an end.
Before leaving, everyone was reluctant to part with Jiang Chuling.
“When are you coming back?”
“Will you bring us more toys next time?”
Jiang Chuling replied, “Next time, I’ll bring you books and workbooks.”
“Ahhh!”
No matter where they were from, children everywhere seemed to lose all their energy the moment they heard the words “workbooks.”
Jiang Chuling lifted her chin slightly. “Any children who place in the top ten of their class in the final exams can come to the amusement park with me during winter vacation. There’s no limit on the number of people who can come~”
!!
In an instant, the children crowded around her again, chattering excitedly.
“Is it an amusement park with a carousel?”
“Can we ride the flying cars? You know, the ones that go up into the sky!”
“I want popcorn! Do they have popcorn at the amusement park?”
Jiang Chuling took a step back, clasped her hands behind her back, and said with a mischievous smile, “Those secrets are only for children who make it into the top ten~”
“Arghhh!”
Surrounded and chased by the children, Jiang Chuling ran off with a delighted grin.
None of the media present missed such a perfect happy ending. The children’s laughter warmed the hearts of every adult at the scene.
Once they were back in the car, Qiuyun immediately praised her. “Miss, you surpassed yourself today. You completed the task perfectly!”
The toys, the workbooks, and the amusement-park reward had all been arranged by Qiuyun, inspired by Jiang Chuling’s clever idea last time.
Even after getting into the car, Jiang Chuling still basked in the exhilaration of having been surrounded by everyone. She seemed born to enjoy being admired and followed.
“Hehe. But, Big Sister Qiuyun, why are we assigning them homework? If they weren’t going to the amusement park, they probably wouldn’t do it at all.”
Qiuyun blinked. “Because you have to lower expectations before raising them.”
With Old Master Jiang stepping in, the prewritten press release could be put aside for the time being.
The welfare-home event had come to an end.
Since official media outlets still had to go through multiple rounds of review—and print newspapers also required printing and distribution—the first reports to appear were not authoritative accounts, but online gossip accounts throwing mud.
Accusations of putting on a show, fake donations, and staged photo opportunities flooded the screen. The sarcasm was everywhere.
—Tsk, tsk. If I had money, I’d just give each person a hundred thousand yuan! How much could a few toys possibly cost? Is it really worth making a whole report about?
—Heh. You can tell at a glance that some rich family is paving the way for this kid. Tsk, tsk, no wonder she comes from a wealthy household. They’re experts at pretending. She really sells it, though!
—Has everyone forgotten what happened two months ago? Isn’t it obvious that the Jiang Group is using children to whitewash its reputation?
—Although I don’t like wealthy families using charity as a publicity stunt either, calling this a whitewashing campaign seems like a stretch. Didn’t the smoking gun already come out? Ms. Qin confessed and has gone to prison, hasn’t she?
—A bunch of sky people coming down to earth. They let a little benefit slip through their fingers and you all start licking their boots? Don’t be so pathetic, okay?
—Wait, who’s licking anyone? I’m just a passerby, and even I can’t stand this disgusting comment section. Are you people even real?
—Exactly! The children in the video are smiling so happily. I thought everyone was commenting about how cute they were! I didn’t expect to click in and find so much hostility!
…
In reality, most ordinary viewers, upon seeing such a filthy comment section, would scroll through it for a few seconds, close it, and move on to the next video.
Only a small number of passersby who were willing to voice their opinions would leave comments expressing a different view.
But real people could never compete with machines. Those dissenting comments were quickly drowned out by the flood of online vitriol.
The story gained momentum rapidly and soon appeared on the trending searches.
It had to be said that the people from MR were extremely professional at manipulating online public opinion. Their talking points were endlessly varied and, at first glance, sounded reasonable. Yet in reality, there were problems everywhere.
Half an hour later, after the Group’s Public Relations Department detected the growing public backlash, it hurriedly began urging the various media outlets to speed things up. One outlet after another scrambled to publish its final report.
With the controversy drawing so much attention, everyone wanted to see what kind of monstrous scam this charity event really was if it had been attacked so viciously.
But as they watched the reports, paired with the media outlets’ exquisite music, masterful editing, and dryly humorous visual storytelling, viewers were quickly captivated by the children’s innocent, healing smiles.
Later, an animated clip of all the children’s faces collapsing in despair when they heard the words “workbooks” was turned into a reaction image by netizens and spread across comment sections everywhere.
—Wait, is life really this stressful now? Even a rich family’s child gets attacked for doing charity? She’s just a kid! Does she even know what “fake donations” and “putting on a show” mean?
