Mo E

"You... you... how did you end up like this? Mo E~" Ryuu Mufei was shocked by his appearance, he himself could hardly believe he recognized him by his looks.

"Don't I owe my current glorious appearance to you? Have you forgotten?" Mo E said as he walked towards Ryuu Mufei. "I'll make sure you, the Ryuu Family Young Master, personally experience the hardships I've endured all these years!"

"Hardships?!"

Ryuu Mufei strained his head up to look at the chilling face, suddenly recalling events from about six years ago.

Time rewound to six years ago. It was a not-so-cold winter, inside a building behind some grass within a boarding school in a certain country.

The winters here weren't cold, and it never snowed. Everything was still green, with clover grass growing lushly in the grass patches, showing no signs of winter at all.

"No!" Suddenly, a sharp female voice pierced the tranquility.

Looking towards the source of the sound, a woman lay in the patch of clover grass. In front of her stood a man, who looked somewhat unhinged. He held a utility knife in his hand.

"Why don't you shout louder? You abusive woman, let's see who comes to save you?" The man's expression was dazed, his eyes devoid of any reason. "Have you forgotten how you treated me before?"

"What did I do to you?" The woman was clearly terrified, tears welling up in her eyes as she sobbed.

"You know, three years ago, I liked you so much! But..." As he spoke, the man became more agitated.

It turned out that three years prior, they were classmates.

The woman was the pampered daughter of a wealthy family, with a capricious personality. Although she was incredibly arrogant towards those around her, her beauty and family background attracted many admirers, and this man was one of them. However, he was a poor boy, poorer than ordinary families. The woman was sweet and cute, always surrounded by followers wherever she went. The man, on the other hand, was ordinary-looking. Although he had gotten into this prestigious school through his excellent grades, and consistently ranked at the top, his reclusive nature, born from insecurity, made him unpopular at school. Yet, this man had been in love with the rich young lady since childhood.

However, because there were so many people pursuing this girl, both men and women shared one characteristic: their families were all much better off than this boy's. Therefore, this insecure boy never dared to confess his feelings to the girl.

Valentine's Day was the turning point in the boy's fate. That day, the boy secretly stole two weeks' worth of living expenses from his home to buy the girl he admired chocolates as a gift, and mustered the courage to confess his feelings. He thought the worst outcome would be rejection. But he never expected the result to far exceed his expectations.

The girl was surrounded by so many people. When the boy squeezed through the crowd, his hands trembling with excitement as he presented his gift, the girl merely glanced at it. It was obvious that this gift, compared to the others, was completely unpresentable. Looking at the gift, the girl felt that this boy was insulting her with such a cheap present, so she angrily threw the gift in his face.

"Trash!"

Just two words felt like a mountain pressing down on him, suffocating him. With the sound of the gift hitting the ground, the boy's feelings were shattered on the floor. Then, the girl turned and left. The boy's chocolates were trampled into pieces by the girl's followers, and the boy was also beaten, humiliated, and insulted by them.

The boy's last shred of hope was trampled into dust. Dejected, he returned home, and his mother learned of the incident.

"Useless!"

The boy was branded with this label by his mother.

The boy ran away from home, and his parents were both hit by a train while searching for him.

"Well? You threw a tantrum like a spoiled brat back then, causing me to become like this now. You have to compensate me!" The man, enraged, approached the woman step by step.

"Mo E! No, don't! Don't do this!" The woman screamed in fear, crying. "It was my fault before, I truly didn't know I would hurt your feelings like that, I'm so sorry!" She desperately tried to escape from the person in front of her. "Don't do this! I wronged you, I'll pay you money, okay?"

"Forget it, I don't care about your stinking money! Don't insult me with that kind of thing." Mo E glared fiercely at the woman he had once liked but who had insulted him and changed his life. He despised, from the bottom of his heart, the way rich people tried to settle everything with money. Looking at the woman, who had once been so high and mighty and arrogant towards him, now collapsed before him, he felt an indescribable complexity in his heart. His nose stung, and he continued to threaten her with the utility knife.

"Then what do you want? I'll give you anything!" The woman was very anxious. How she wished this was just a dream, that she could wake up soon.

"Oh? Is that so?" Mo E stared at her and replied, "Then fine, I'll take your purity. I'll humiliate you just as you humiliated me back then! No, I'll humiliate you tenfold!"

"…?"

Hearing this, the woman was stunned. She never expected Mo E to say something like this. She was completely trapped. What could this person, who couldn't even lift a chicken, do? Her mind went blank.

Mo E approached the woman step by step, but as he took another step forward, a force struck him.