The other workers in line were all grateful for their boss's kindness and became even more devoted.
But inside Niklas's heart, he was already cursing madly:
"Damn it, why are they borrowing money again? Do I look like some kind of good person?"
"These pieces of shit make me nervous every time they ask for an advance, always making me afraid they won't pay it back. I really should secretly put huge amounts of castor beans in their food—no, maybe I should just make 'castor beans' into an everyday dish."
"Then they'd be poisoned mute and wouldn't come asking me for advances again!"
From afar, Wu Heng watched the boss. His inner thoughts and outward behavior were complete opposites.
A particle of white mist, invisible to the naked eye, drifted before Niklas and silently merged into his soul.
Then Wu Heng sensed Niklas's pattern of thought.
To a certain extent, this Niklas was a typical example of "man is born evil by nature"—a born villain!
But under the teachings of his parents and family, he had learned to disguise himself.
He spent his days plotting all kinds of evil deeds, yet disguised himself as a kindly old man.
Originally, that would not have mattered.
But this villain was rather miserable. He had nowhere to put his wicked thoughts into practice. His days were ordinary and bland, and his life was merely average.
Not even a single criminal had ever come looking for him.
This resulted in a bad person pretending to be a good person for an entire lifetime, without ever managing to do even one truly excessive evil deed.
He had long been so stifled that he was nearly driven mad, falling into depression.
Yet it was as though his many disguises as a good man had sealed away