The principal looked at Tang Yi, and after a long while, he began to explain, "As you can see, these are special children. If their teachers are changed too frequently, they will feel insecure. We established this school to give these children another world, a home, and to prevent them from growing up facing strange looks and insecurity."
Tang Yi understood that what the principal said made sense. She nodded and said, "I understand, Principal. Don't worry, as long as you can arrange a place for me to stay, I can work here long-term."
Seeing the sincerity in Tang Yi's eyes, the principal didn't think she was a flighty girl.
Perhaps, he could consider letting Tang Yi continue working here.
So, the principal instructed someone to print the contract and then signed a five-year contract with Tang Yi.
The other teachers hadn't signed contracts, mainly because the principal didn't trust Tang Yi.
He didn't trust her at all.
That's why he proposed a contract with Tang Yi, and Tang Yi, undeterred, signed it with the principal right away.
After signing the contract, Tang Yi took her luggage to her dormitory and then went to see the children.
Her "luggage" was more like her entire belongings.
It included a photo of her and her mother, a birthday gift from her mother, and a few changes of clothes.
As soon as Tang Yi came out of the dormitory, she was called to the principal's office.
The principal enthusiastically introduced Tang Yi, "Ms. Tang, this is Mr. Mo, a sponsor of our school. His son, Mo Shaoxuan, also studies here. He stays at school from Monday to Friday, and this student happens to be in your class. Please take him back to the classroom in a moment."
As the principal introduced him, Mr. Mo, the sponsor, couldn't take his eyes off Tang Yi, staring at her intently.
Tang Yi felt a shiver run down her spine from his gaze.
The principal also noticed Mr. Mo's unusual behavior.
Mr. Mo was in his early forties and had never married. His son was born after he became successful, due to a woman's scheme. To give him a son to inherit the family fortune, the woman went for a gender check three months into her pregnancy. She would abort any female fetuses until she conceived a boy, which she then kept. However, due to too many previous miscarriages, this pregnancy was unstable and required progesterone injections to maintain.
Thus, the woman had been on progesterone injections since conception until the child's birth. But due to the excessive use of these injections, the child was born with intellectual disabilities.
The woman felt too ashamed to force Mr. Mo to marry her.
She dared not rely on her son for status.
Mr. Mo took the intellectually disabled child for a DNA test, and all results confirmed he was his child.
Therefore, Mr. Mo kept the child with him.
Whether Mr. Mo treated Mo Shaoxuan well was debatable. He usually paid little attention to Mo Shaoxuan.
On the other hand, to prevent Mo Shaoxuan from feeling inferior and looked down upon at school, Mr. Mo had funded the construction of this very school.
Thus, no one could definitively judge Mr. Mo's feelings for Mo Shaoxuan.
Suddenly, Mo Shaoxuan stood on his tiptoes and touched Tang Yi's chest with his hand.
He slurred, "Another vixen."
Tang Yi's face instantly turned red.
She was furious.
However, the child's thought process was not normal, so she couldn't reason with him, nor could she hit or scold him. She could only endure the humiliation.
The principal was also taken aback, seemingly surprised by Mo Shaoxuan's hostility towards Tang Yi.
Mo Shaoxuan was usually quiet at school.
Seeing this, the principal quickly tried to smooth things over, explaining, "Teacher Tang is quite popular, even the children like to interact with her."
The principal's explanation only made Tang Yi feel more awkward.
After all, what kind of interaction was it when an intellectually disabled child touched a teacher's chest and called her a vixen? Was this a pure interaction?
As the principal tried to explain, he kept glancing at Mr. Mo, who remained unfazed, as if nothing had happened. The principal silently wondered if he was overthinking things.
Perhaps the child didn't mean it that way at all.
Television often portrayed vixens as beautiful. So, when Mo Shaoxuan called Tang Yi a vixen, perhaps he was complimenting her beauty?
After all, Mo Shaoxuan's logic differed from that of normal children, and they couldn't judge his logic using ordinary standards.
Tang Yi coughed twice and said, "Principal, it's time for class. I'll take the student back to the classroom now."
The principal nodded and said, "Yes, yes, that's good."
After Tang Yi left the principal's office with Mo Shaoxuan, Mr. Mo turned to the principal and said, "This Teacher Tang is new, isn't she? Principal, please have all her information copied for me."
What was going on now?
The principal had finally managed to recruit a teacher, and now Mr. Mo was interested in Tang Yi?
If Tang Yi were to get together with Mr. Mo, she would be marrying into wealth. Given Mr. Mo's status and wealth in the area, Tang Yi would likely have to stop working altogether.
Thinking of this, the principal felt uneasy.
After all, it was extremely difficult to recruit a teacher.
However, the principal dared not anger Mr. Mo and handed over all of Tang Yi's information.
Mr. Mo sat in the principal's office, reviewing Tang Yi's profile. In fact, Tang Yi's information was very basic: ID number, name, age, relationship status, contact information, and nothing else.
However, Tang Yi bore an uncanny resemblance to someone.
So much so that seeing Tang Yi made him involuntarily think of her.
Holding Tang Yi's file, Mr. Mo went directly to Tang Yi's classroom and waited for her to finish class.
Mr. Mo had never shown such patience for his own son, Mo Shaoxuan. He waited for 35 minutes until Tang Yi's class ended.
When Tang Yi emerged from the classroom, Mr. Mo called out to her.
"Teacher Tang, I have something I'd like to discuss with you privately. Is that convenient?"
Tang Yi was stunned. Frankly, she had never met Mr. Mo before. If the principal hadn't called her to the office today, she wouldn't even have known that Mr. Mo was an investor in their school.
Despite this, she still felt a bit uncomfortable about Mo Shaoxuan's actions in the principal's office earlier.
So, when Mr. Mo made this request, Tang Yi's guard immediately went up.
Seeing Tang Yi's wary gaze, Mr. Mo realized he had been too hasty.
The main reason was that Tang Yi looked so much like her.
And Mr. Mo had been searching for her for years without any news. Seeing Tang Yi had made him somewhat emotional.