There were only two words in Zhou Yuan's life before he turned eighteen: patience.
He endured his neighbors occupying the homestead, his sister being slapped in the face, his mother being publicly humiliated in the factory, and the whole village going to their spines and calling his family "wimps." My father said that our family is poor and has no ability, so we can only endure. If you endure it until you get into college, you will get ahead.
Zhou Yuan was admitted to Tsinghua University.
But when he walked out of the village with the admission notice, what he wrote in his notebook was not "Thanks for the suffering", but an account. A debt owed by everyone who looked down on his family.
Ten years later.
The top student at Tsinghua University was now just an inconspicuous clerk. When the news came back to the village, Aunt Zhang started cracking melon seeds again: "Let me just say, studying is useless. What about graduating from Tsinghua University? It's not like serving tea and water to others."
No one knew that Zhou Yuan married his college classmate, the only daughter of the Su Group.
No one knows that his other identity as a "little clerk" is a name that makes business leaders stand up to greet him.
No one knew that he had been waiting for an opportunity for the past ten years.
Waiting for an opportunity to write off all accounts.
When the resort project landed in my hometown, when the village chief arrogantly spoke rudely to "Xiao Zhou", when the investor representative next to me trembled and called out "Dr. Zhou"——
Those who had humiliated his family finally understood one thing:
There is a kind of revenge, which is not to fight back.
It makes you crawl in my world, not even qualified to look up.
