In California, there lived a six-year-old girl. One day, by chance, she encountered a stranger who unexpectedly gave her forty thousand dollars.
As news of this sudden windfall spread, it caused a massive sensation across California.
Reporters flocked to the little girl, eager to interview her: "Little girl, do you know the stranger you met on the street? Is he a distant relative? Why would he give you so much money? Forty thousand dollars is a huge sum! Is there something wrong with him?"
The girl replied with a sweet smile, "No, I don't know him, and he isn't my relative. I don't know why he gave me so much money either..." Despite the reporters' persistent questioning, no one could uncover the truth.
Eventually, with the guidance of her family and neighbors, the little girl tried to recall the details of the encounter.
After thinking for a while, she realized something and said to her father, "I was playing outside that day when I met him. I remember I just smiled at him, that's all!"
Her father asked, "Did he say anything to you?"
She thought for a moment and replied, "He seemed to say: 'Your angelic smile has eased my years of misery.' Daddy, what is 'misery'?"
It turned out that the stranger was a wealthy man who was deeply unhappy. He always wore a cold and serious expression, and almost no one in town dared to smile at him. However, when this little girl gave him a sincere smile, his heart was unexpectedly warmed, and it even opened the long-closed doors of his soul at that very moment.
So, the billionaire decided to give the girl forty thousand dollars—a price he set for the feeling he experienced in that moment.
If an angelic smile is enough to untie years of emotional knots, then such a smile is truly priceless.
