"We are poor, we never deny that, but we also have our dignity and bottom line. If self-sufficiency were possible, who would willingly accept charity!" the old dean said with forceful conviction. "What we want is not much, just to live."
To live!
It's easy to exist, easy to live, but life, damn it, is not easy.
In this world, countless people toil every day just to stay alive, just to catch their breath, incessantly hustling like dogs, enduring humiliations.
Because they need to live, they need to survive.
At that moment, photo after photo flickered unceasingly on the screen behind the stage. Each image, each photo was heart-wrenchingly sorrowful—a testament to the children's hard lives!
The old dean's words, paired with those images on the screen, made hearts heavy with sadness; many women had started to silently shed tears once again.
