[Pure Love] [Quality Romance] [Never Forget Your Roots]
I used to be the worst thug on the street, collecting protection money and getting into fights. I thought that was all my life would ever amount to.
Then a top student with a ponytail stood at the mouth of an alley and told me, “You’re not a bad person. You’ve just had bad luck.”
She was my childhood sweetheart. She’d spent seven years looking for me, just to find the boy who helped her with her homework when we were eight.
From bringing me breakfast and tutoring me late into the night, to taking a knife for me and teaching me that “there’s another way to live,” she pulled me out of the mire one step at a time.
Later, I became a legend in the business world, and everyone said I’d defied fate.
Only I knew that she was the first to believe I didn’t belong in the mud.
This is a story about belief: when someone believes you’re capable of becoming better, you really can.
