You Forced Me to Burn Bridges

Chen Mo lived like a shadow in a gutter. His boss, Wang Hai, stole his credit, then made him take the blame, and finally kicked him out of the company. His relatives constantly rubbed his cousin's "success" in his face, while his first love, Lin Wei, even after marrying someone else, still remembered to offer him her condescending "charity." His parents' phone calls brought nothing but demands and sighs over his uselessness. "They resent you for being poor, fear you becoming rich, hate you for having anything, laugh at you for having nothing, bully you when you're weak, and envy you when you're strong." He had tasted all six poisons of human nature.

Then one overseas phone call revealed the truth: he was the sole heir to a mysterious tycoon, with an enormous inheritance capable of overturning the rules. Chen Mo chose to keep his wealth hidden and return with cold detachment. He watched the clowns keep celebrating as he laid a precise, inescapable trap.

And so Wang Hai, who had stolen his credit, knelt and begged him to make a connection and save him after the project blew up. The boss who had forced him to take the blame kowtowed and repented on the brink of bankruptcy. His boastful relatives wept over their children's futures. His first love, after her dream of marrying into a wealthy family shattered, knelt and begged him to take her back.

When everyone who had once trampled him realized that the "savior" they were begging was Chen Mo, the very man they had ground into the dirt, he tore away every disguise and bared his icy fangs:

"I gave you all a chance. You forced me to show my true colors."