On Earth, in a small town, a young man was kneeling on the ground, staring hatefully at a young girl with another man. He glared at the woman and snarled “Why! We never had any problems! Maybe I don’t have a lot of money but I’m working 3 jobs! Just for you!”

The man on the other side laughed scornfully and the girl looked at the young man with disdain as she said “Zi Tian. You’re poor. You work 3 jobs and you’re still poor! I don’t want to live without money! Plus, Sun Tao is the Ceo of his own Multi-Millionaire business! What are you!? Nothing!”

Zi Yang stared at the girl in front of him in shock for a few moments before sighing ruefully. The girl was his Highschool sweetheart, Ling Mei. Originally, she was honest and kind but it changed when they went to college.

Her friend group pushed her for being a poor girl and this was the result.

Zi Yang looked at Sun Tao and grinded his teeth in hatred, thinking ‘If it weren’t for this guy…’

Sun Tao sneered at Zi Yang and threw a few bills, waving his hand while saying “Alright, you have your compensation. Now scram.” Ling Mei’s face changed slightly but it soon turned to normal as she thought ‘As long as he pays for me…’

WIth that thought, she looked at Sun Tao with an infatuated expression.

Zi Yang clenched a fist tightly as he caught a glimpse of Ling Mei’s infatuated expression. His anger turned to hatred which soon turned to helplessness as Sun Tao and Ling Mei walked away without even sparing Zi Yang a second glance.

The kind and honest Ling Mei was gone and the only thing left was a materialistic woman.

Zi Yang wasn’t angry at Ling Mei, after all, they had been together for years and had a very close relationship. It was unrealistic to be angry. He was completely beyond angry, as he stood up from the ground, he stared at her back and his eyes slowly turned bloodshot.

All the love and care that he had given her for years was slowly turning to hatred. A hatred so intense that it couldn’t be described in words. He took out a small black box from his pocket and shouted “Meimei!”

Ling Mei halted suddenly and turned her head to see the small black box flying over. It fell to the ground and opened to reveal a diamond ring, she stared at the ring in a bit of a daze as Zi Yang’s words sounded “This is the last gift I will ever give you. Have a nice life.”

Sun Tao looked at the ring and sneered as he said “What a loser, that ring only cost 5000$! Haha! I can buy hundreds!”

Ling Mei was unresponsive, while Zi Yang glared at Sun Tao with such a bone chilling coldness, it could only come from the deepest part of hell.

Sun Tao kept his sneer but felt a chill down his spine as he looked at Zi Yang’s eyes. His own eyes slowly turned cruel and ruthless as he took his attention away and dragged Ling mei with him, leaving the ring on the ground.

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Zi Yang watched them go and only when they were completely out of sight did he look up at the sky and scream.

The surrounding people gave him looks of pity and secretly shook their heads. The boy’s roar was filled with hatred, pain, and helplessness, how could they not understand?

Zi Yang suddenly laughed a little crazily and walked away, leaving the scene.

The event was destined to be a small event as even the prized ring was snatched up by a homeless man, erasing any traces of exchange.

Zi Yang returned to his apartment and resumed life, but it was destined to never be the same.

Several years passed~

Zi Yang was still a young man, not even reaching 30 but he looked much older. His life completely fell apart after that day, his bosses all fired him and chased him out, his apartment landlord even kicked him out!

Zi Yang took everything in with a placid expression, he knew the reason why this was happening to him. It was too obvious at any rate, obviously it was all Sun Tao!

Realistically, who else would it be?

Zi Yang had nowhere to go. He was in dire straits as debts and criminal charges came to him out of nowhere, claiming to be either from his deceased parents or his own actions.

Naturally, Sun Tao had a lot of power in his position.

His actions directly pushed Zi Yang to desperation with a simple few sentences. Eventually, Zi Yang was going through the motions in life with only a laptop, a shitty apartment, and Dog Tags given to him by his father before he died.

The Dog Tags even had his own name on them, they were his most precious thing.

Zi Yang's parents were in the army and died in battle, a friend of his father brought him the Dog tags along with the bad news before leaving. Zi Yang never saw that man again.

Nevertheless, life was pretty bad for Zi Yang. He used to read a lot on online websites about fantasy worlds, taking the pleasure of putting himself into them mentally, trying to escape from his dire circumstances.

His dream of revenge on Sun Tao had vanished into a puff of smoke. It was completely unrealistic! Without Money, you had no power!

That was the brutal truth of the world.

Zi Yang would wish for even a sliver of strength from the books he used to read, even a sliver would let him get revenge and die happy, unfortunately for him, his wishes were never realized.

Thus, the situation came to be.

Zi Yang stood on a cliff, looking out to the valley with dead eyes. He was going to die from unreasonable debt collectors anyway, he figured; instead of going out on their terms and giving Sun Tao the satisfaction, he would do it himself.

Beautiful concept, terrifying conclusion!

He looked at the ground under the cliff and clicked his tongue in wonder.

He was only 28 this year.

Zi Yang chuckled to himself and mumbled in a small moment of dark humor “Should I do a flip and go out in style?”

Of course, there was nobody to answer him… Or so he thought anyway…

Zi Yang took a breath and swan dived off the cliff into a beautiful triple spin tuck with 3 and ½ flips before splating on the ground at the bottom into a mere bloodstain and mangled flesh mixed with bones.

A man appeared over the blood splat, hovering in the air, and chuckled “9/10. The splatter isn’t symmetrical, what a shame!” he grabbed over the blood splatter and seemed to grab something invisible before vanishing into thin air as if he was never there!

If Zi Yang were to see the man, he would be thoroughly shocked, because he had 100% seen that man before!

The man had a feral grin with gleaming and sharp canines, but his most notable features were the blue crystalline horns on his head, and the blue sclera on the sides of his eyes!

A man reached out from the void and grabbed Zi Yang’s Dog Tags before disappearing once more with a chuckle.