As Zhou Dongcheng gradually regained his memories, he realized that he had to fight for everything in the orphanage.

Because the old director was too abnormal. He was a real scoundrel. For example, when distributing food every day, he would only give two steamed buns to three people. It was a classic case of "two peaches kill three warriors".

To get a bite to eat, Zhou Dongcheng worked tirelessly to become stronger.

He learned the survival of the fittest from the age of four or five, and no child of his age dared to mess with him.

At that time, the person he hated most at the welfare home was the old director.

However, on the surface, he was very shrewd, flattering the old dean.

Of course, the old dean didn't necessarily want a child to fawn over him; it was mainly because Zhou Dongcheng was very good at secretly observing and causing trouble behind the scenes.

He would inform on anyone who was disloyal to the dean behind his back.

From the teachers and staff of the welfare home to the children there, if anyone says anything bad about the old director behind his back, the old director will know immediately.

Seriously, who doesn't talk about others behind their backs?

Moreover, Zhou Dongcheng himself cultivated some informants, and his companions were easily won over with just a piece of candy or a steamed bun.

Therefore, the old dean always knew about those who spoke ill of him behind his back immediately, and of course, they were dealt with severely.

On the surface, no one could tell that Zhou Dongcheng was a bad guy; he had been deceiving everyone with his innocent and naive demeanor.

Actually, Zhou Dongcheng was quite handsome when he was a child, otherwise why would Master Ding have chosen him as his apprentice?

Gradually, he began doing dirty work for the old dean, which earned him greater trust.

One day, the former director went out to attend a meeting in the city because he had received a city-level award for outstanding philanthropy.

Zhou Dongcheng quietly slipped into the old dean's treasured study and found an iron box in the basement.

There were many ancient books inside. He stole two of them, one of which looked like a book on qigong and the other was about magic.

One look at the dusty iron box and you could tell that the old dean had just brought these things back for his collection.

The old dean was clearly a person who paid great attention to health preservation. He had many books on qigong, but he only kept them as collectibles, gathering dust in the basement.

In fact, these two books are indeed legitimate repair books, and Zhou Dongcheng treasured them like a precious gem.

Zhou Dongcheng always knew that he had to study in order to change his fate, and he studied all the books in the welfare home's library.

Many of his wisdom comes from there; he was only four or five years old, yet he was remarkably precocious.

Moreover, he has an excellent memory; he learns and memorizes simultaneously, creating a virtuous cycle.

He also knew how to make choices; he first studied the book on Qi cultivation and soon discovered its amazing properties.

He always made time to study behind the teaching building. One day, he suddenly found himself able to jump onto a big tree and finally realized that this was not an ordinary qigong book, but a Taoist secret manual.

He was very talented; his qigong practice made his memory even better, and he actually memorized the contents of two books.

Then he studied the books on formations. After he had thoroughly mastered both books, he planned to sneak into the old headmaster's study, put the two books in, and then replace them with a few other books.

However, things didn't go as planned. The iron box contained only other ordinary ancient books, and there were no more books related to the repair of the chain.

However, Zhou Dongcheng's mastery of these two techniques has surpassed that of everyone else.

Xiao Xi sneered, "Actually, you're already a winner in life just by mastering these two techniques. You can make a lot of money with them, so why do so many bad things?"

Zhou Dongcheng's mental state was no longer under his control, and he blankly expressed his thoughts.

"Everyone wants things to get better after they've already gotten better; human desires are endless."