However, Ye Chen’s words made her realise that Ye Chen really saw her as a relative and was treating her as a sister who needed careful care and attention.
This also made the feeling in her heart that she was like a floating weed and had no place to belong to, instantly washed away by half.
If you tell me that you can’t find a sense of belonging in Jinling, or even in China, and want to go back to Canada, I will personally send you back. From now on, I, as a brother, will do everything I can to make sure that you have no worries, no matter where you are.”
Claudia’s eyes were red with emotion at Ye Chen’s words, and while she nodded her head repeatedly, tears fell silently from her eyes.
Ye Chen had grown up in the orphanage, and he understood Claudia’s feelings at this moment. Back then, when he himself was totally ignorant of what Tang Sihai had arranged, and was curled up alone in the corner of the dormitory of the Jinling orphanage crying until dawn, he did not know how sad and desperate he was.
And now Claudia was going through almost exactly the same process as she herself had then.
That is why he was so concerned about Claudia, hoping that with his attitude and actions, he could help her untie all the knots in her heart and face her future life with openness and optimism.
So, Ye Chen told Claudia about his own experiences in the orphanage back then, hoping that she would find resonance in herself.
When Ye Chen described in detail his own psychological state back then, Claudia did feel a strong sense of empathy in her heart, and it was at this moment that she suddenly realised that Ye Chen was probably the one who understood herself the most in this world.
This was something that even Li Xiaofen could not do.
This was because Li Xiaofen had been abandoned since birth and then taken into an orphanage, while both herself and Ye Chen, who had thought they had everything and were the happiest children in the world, had eventually watched it all being cruelly taken away from them.
Li Xiaofen had not been through this kind of trauma, so she did not manage to really read Claudia’s heart.
The two talked all the way, and not only did Claudia feel that she found empathy in Ye Chen, but Ye Chen also found the same feeling in this girl, ten years younger than herself.
Luckily, neither of them was the pessimistic type, so they had more in common and soon talked about a different, indescribable and detailed optimism out of the same bitter experience.
In the middle of the conversation, the car had already arrived at the entrance of Jinling University.
At this time, Jinling University was on holiday, but to Ye Chen’s surprise, there were quite a few staff members at the entrance of the school, busily preparing for something, and had even blocked the way of the car.
Ye Chen honked his horn briefly and a staff member hurriedly ran over and apologetically said to Ye Chen, “Sorry sir, we have to pull up a banner to pull up your car before you can pa*s, otherwise your car will definitely crush the banner if you pa*s.”
Ye Chen nodded with understanding and spoke, “It’s alright, I’ll wait for a while then.”
“Thank you, we’ll be done in a few minutes.”
The man said thank you and turned around to go and get busy with other colleagues again.
Soon, a red banner was pulled up from both sides of the school gate and hung high above the school gate’s pagoda.
Ye Chen looked up and saw that the banner read, “A warm welcome to Mr. Qiu Ying Shan and his wife to our school.”
Ye Chen seemed to have heard of the name Qiu Ying Shan, but for a while he forgot where he had heard of it.
At that moment, the staff member ran over and asked politely, “What are you doing inside?”
Ye Chen said, “I have an appointment with General Manager Chen Zekai Chen to meet here.”
The man suddenly understood and said, “Mr. Chen has already gone in, so please do the same!