novelraw Chapter 118: Archival Information
Chapter 118: Archival Information
Looking at the girl's photo in the upper left corner of the file, Xiao Gui'an searched his mind for the orphans he had seen tonight.
After roughly matching it to a familiar face, Xiao Gui'an continued reading downward.
It recorded this girl's course grades and task completion indicators for each year and each month.
Her performance, her disposition, even analyses of her physical growth were all documented.
Xiao Gui'an flipped through page after page, with numerous photos and written records presenting data before him like instrument analyses.
Most children in the orphanage were quite young, many being lower-grade orphans.
Besides academic studies, they needed to master social skills, self-care abilities, and more.
To increase their chances of adoption and become more promising, outstanding children, these orphans also took handicraft classes, interest courses, and household chores lessons.
Obedient, well-behaved, sensible—these were the 'good children' cultivated in this orphanage, existing like the proverbial 'neighbor's perfect kids.'
These required courses were taught by teachers hired by the orphanage, with the children having very little contact with peers from the outside world.In this confined little world, they were each other's closest family.
Xiao Gui'an reached the final page of this girl's file, which stated: Comprehensive Quality Assessment: Medium (Adoption value requires improvement; Second Cultivation Program may be activated)
His gaze lightly swept over the words 'adoption value,' and Xiao Gui'an set this file aside.
Then he casually picked up others' files—many children ultimately received medium comprehensive evaluations, with some slightly better ones rated medium-high.
Many children with medium evaluations had records stating they were sent to other charitable institutions, with only a few adopted by ordinary families.
Two children with medium-high evaluations were shown at the end of their documents to have been adopted by elite families—one boy, one girl, around thirteen or fourteen years old.
Generally, if wanting to build bonds with a child, one should choose younger orphans.
Regarding the families that adopted these two children, there wasn't detailed information; even if mentioned, it was vague, without a single photo.
Follow-up monitoring contained only brief notes, stating multiple return visits completed, excellent performance, adapted to current life, no adverse incidents occurred.
Xiao Gui'an flipped through the documents—it seemed the orphanage stopped caring about the children after sending them away.
He put down the file in his hand and picked up another one buried underneath.
Opening the first page, a sweet-faced girl came into Xiao Gui'an's view.
It was the girl named 'Xiao Le'—her eyes were very beautiful, leaving an impression on almost everyone who saw them.
The orphans had no surnames of their own; here, they all started with 'Xiao' followed by one character, perhaps taking their adoptive parents' surnames later if adopted.
Xiao Le's academic performance and interest learning were quite good, but her handicraft grades remained mediocre, even somewhat poor.
Amidst all A grades, the C grade in handicraft courses stood out starkly.
Over the next two or three years, Xiao Le improved this sole weakness, becoming outstanding among the children.
Even in the evaluation comments below, 'well-behaved' was the most frequently mentioned term.
However, the further he flipped, Xiao Le's expression, like other orphans, grew increasingly subdued, her smile becoming more perfected.
Put positively, this was called maturing, becoming restrained and mature.
Put negatively, it was like grinding away children's innate nature and vitality, confining them within invisible human-shaped vessels.
Xiao Le stayed in the orphanage for a full six years; Xiao Gui'an watched the girl in the photos gradually develop beautiful features.
In the seventh year, recorded at the start of spring, Xiao Le was thirteen when she left the orphanage, adopted by a famous philanthropist. Unusually, there was actually a photo of this philanthropist.
She was an old woman who appeared kind and benevolent, with a gentle smile, wearing Chinese-style Tang suit, looking very affluent.
Her hand lightly rested on Xiao Le's shoulder; the two stood together like a grandmother and granddaughter with an extremely close relationship.
The next file was for the reliable, honest-looking boy—Xiao Gui'an now knew his name, 'Xiao Xuan.'
His record data was also quite good, with all rating levels at B or above, making him an all-round developed child.
When this youth arrived at 'Angel's Wings' Orphanage, he was already nine years old.
The file stated that at fourteen, due to good physique and outstanding sports performance, Xiao Xuan was selected for the municipal sports team, leaving the orphanage one year earlier than Xiao Le.
Below were two overlapping files; Xiao Gui'an roughly realized whose they would be.
Xiao Yong, the boy with a black birthmark on his face and a slight limp—his performance was quite average. Compared to the photos, the birthmark on the boy Xiao Gui'an saw tonight seemed somewhat lighter.
His scores and evaluations for every course were mediocre; overall, not too good, not too bad.
Finally, the somewhat gloomy-looking boy, Xiao Fan—his academic performance was also very good, but his task completion rates and personality evaluations seemed somewhat poor.
There were also some records of receiving disciplinary actions, but specific circumstances weren't documented.
He was the youngest among these orphans, with a comprehensive evaluation of medium-low on his file.
Xiao Gui'an continued reading many more files; much information about numerous orphans was somewhat missing.
Some lacked portions of course grades, some missed task records, others had no physical health examination status, and so on.
There weren't just individual orphan files here, but also records of orphanage activities.
The orphanage seemed to host many large and small events, with orphans frequently gathering for group cooperation and interaction.
In these photos, every orphan was organized to play games or do handicrafts.
There were even small sports meets, including various athletic competitions.
Xiao Gui'an had already been paying attention, so he noticed in many game photos, the child named Xiao Fan stood outside the crowd, like part of the background.
The photos only vaguely captured these moments, but one could sense the boy's subtle resistance to such activities.
Does this child dislike sports?
Xiao Gui'an thought this.
"Huh—"
Then, the faint candle flame suddenly went out.