Chapter 2

When Yingying Guan first joined the company, Xiao He was assigned to show her around. The two unexpectedly hit it off, finding shared interests, including one particular topic—making me the subject of their jokes. They developed an uncanny camaraderie in teasing me. While I was working overtime to reconcile the year-end accounts, I noticed discrepancies in the figures. Another three sleepless nights passed as I rechecked every detail. Exhausted to the point of pulling my hair out, I finally discovered the culprit: Yingying Guan had been depositing 0.10 yuan into the account every day. When I confronted her, she burst into tears and said, "I just saw you staying up late every night trying to balance the accounts. I thought I’d help you." To my dismay, my coworkers sided with her. "New employees are bound to make mistakes. Yingying’s been working so hard already," they said. Even the boss dismissed my concerns. "Yingying was just trying to help. You don’t have to be so aggressive," he told me. Amidst the chorus of accusations, I became the villain—a bully targeting a coworker. The company seized the opportunity to fire me without severance pay. They even withheld a month of my wages. What came next was even worse. Yingying started live-streaming to smear my reputation, supported by my former boss and colleagues, who chimed in to corroborate her lies. I was branded as a workplace bully, a stigma I couldn’t shake. Around the same time, my mother fell seriously ill and required a large sum of money for treatment. But my life had already unraveled. Netizens had doxxed me, and none of the hundreds of resumes I sent out received a reply. Unable to afford the treatment, my mother missed the best window for care. Shortly after, my father, unable to bear the grief, followed her in death. Crushed under the weight of despair, I succumbed to depression and ended my life. When I opened my eyes again, I found myself staring at the numbers on the account—once again noticing the extra 0.10 yuan. This time, I exploded immediately. One either breaks free in an outburst or perishes in silence. In this life, I choose to break free—and destroy every vile person in my way, starting with Yingying Guan and Xiao He.