The Fool Is a Fool No More

At six, my own father abandoned me. At twelve, Zhao Tu kicked me so hard I became an idiot. At fourteen, my mother was driven to her death.

Everyone in town called me a bastard and cursed my mother as a homewrecker.

But nobody knew that Zhou Min, the woman from the provincial capital, was behind it all. She forced my father to abandon us, made the Wu family persecute us, and drove my mother into a desperate corner. The Wu family were nothing but dogs on her leash. Zhao Tu was just a stray dog drawn by the scent of blood.

But they didn't know I wasn't an idiot anymore.

That kick reactivated my brain. I gained a photographic memory, faster reflexes, and explosive physical strength. I'm a Threshold One, someone who has lingered on the brink of life and death and been reprogrammed by fate.

I spent four years pretending to be stupid, waiting.

Waiting for Wu Qiang to come collect protection money, for Wu Biao to smash down my door, for Wu Batian to get personally involved. Waiting for the woman from the provincial capital to think I'd been completely ruined.

Now, I've waited long enough.

Wu Qiang, you threw me into the river, didn't you? I remember. Wu Biao, you threw me into a brick kiln, didn't you? I remember. Wu Batian, you drove my mother to her death, didn't you? I remember.

And you, Zhou Min. You think hiding behind the scenes will keep you safe? The Threshold One bodyguards by your side can't stop me. The Zhou family behind you can't protect you.

You will be the first to pay for what you did to my mother.

In short:

A boy kicked into idiocy awakens as a “Threshold One.” After pretending to be stupid for four years, he returns to settle scores, working his way up from the Wu family, who used him as a pawn and persecuted him, to the true mastermind, Zhou Min. In the end, he finds the man who abandoned them and makes him kneel at his mother's grave to beg forgiveness.