Chapter 149

This time I didn’t flinch when he started disinfecting my cuts. Actually, I was surprisingly cooperative. Five minutes later, he snapped the first aid kit shut and began in a low voice, “Even though my mom moved to Seoul, she’s not seen Seoul as her home. She wanted to do something meaningful, and one day she saw a news segment about a girl who lost her parents, living with her grandma in the mountains. The kid used to walk dozens of kilometers a day just to get to school. It really moved her. So she decided to fund the girl’s education. That little girl was Cindy Clark. She was in eighth grade back then.” “Thanks to my mom’s help, Cindy studied hard and got into City H’s top high school. I’d never met her, only heard my mom mention her a few times. I didn’t think much of it.” “Originally, I was supposed to stay on in Seoul for my PhD after finishing my Master’s. But something came up, and I ended up going back, investing in QY as a tech partner.” “That same year, Cindy was about to ta