Rebirth of the thief who roamed around the world (BOOK 1)

Chapter 105 - Hatred and Desire for Revenge

"That kid isn't home?" A hoarse voice passed through the door and entered Nie Yan's ears.

Nie Yan wrinkled his brows upon hearing this voice, and anger began bubbling forth from inside him. The voice belonged to his oldest uncle from his mother's side, a person he loathed with a burning passion. When his parents had borrowed money from relatives and friends, his uncle had been the stingiest. Later on, when his father started a successful business, they used the fact that they had lent him money as leverage to coerce him into giving them a twenty percent stake, turning his father's own business into a family one. They took money but never worked to earn it back and constantly misappropriated the company's funds. Thankfully, Nie Yan's father had always been strict and caught on quickly, preventing the situation from worsening. Though, after the business began expanding into Conviction, a crisis suddenly emerged. Initially, his father only allowed thirty percent of the shares to be sold in order to safeguard the company from any mergers or acquisitions. Yet it was these exact friends and relatives cooperating with Cao Xu, backstabbing his father, that led to him losing control of the company. In the end, his father became clinically depressed and was eventually forced to bow out from managing the business.

After travelling back to the past, although the hatred he felt for Cao Xu remained deep-rooted in his very being, it had nevertheless diminished significantly. This world had always been one where the strong preyed upon the weak. If his family didn't have the strength to defend themselves, granted even if Cao Xu didn't make a move, some other bigshot would have acquired his father's business instead. Taking this into consideration, the people Nie Yan resented the most were the friends and relatives who betrayed his father!

Backstabbed by his close friends and relatives... There was nothing else that contributed more to his father falling into deep depression.

「BAM! BAM! BAM!」The knocking on the door changed into heavy pounding, and he could easily sense the anger behind these sounds.

Nie Yan walked over to the door and opened it, whereupon five familiar faces entered his eyes.

"Oh, what a surprise! Uncles, aunties, you all came! Mr. Lin, you're here as well?"[1] Nie Yan swept over his relatives as his expression filled with an increasing amount of derision and contempt with each passing moment. When his gaze finally fell upon a middle-aged man in the back, however, there was actually a hint of respect that lit up in his eyes. Nie Yan could roughly guess why his relatives had come knocking at the door. After all, his parents had borrowed quite a sum of money from numerous friends and family. It was within expectations that these four showed up at his doorstep, demanding repayment; however, Mr. Lin's arrival was rather unexpected and puzzling.

Lin Ya was his father's old friend from the army. When their family had been in dire straits, he had been one of the few people who never abandoned them. Even during the betrayal at his father's company, he hadn't been present. From what Nie Yan could remember, Mr. Lin was a man who didn't speak much but attached great importance to friendship. When they were in the army together, Mr. Lin had even taken a bullet for his father, which left him crippled to this day. Their family definitely owed a lot to Mr. Lin.

After a moment, Nie Yan recalled that Mr. Lin had lent one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to his father, which took a heavy toll on his finances.

Nie Yan found it hard to imagine what sort of promise his father made to convince his relatives and friends to loan him so much money. If he didn't know any better, he would assume these people had gambling problems. Truthfully speaking, if his father succeeded, they would earn a huge sum of money, but if his father failed, they would receive nothing in return.

Mr. Lin averted his gaze when Nie Yan's eyes fell on him. Then, he stared back at Nie Yan with a slightly apologetic look and said, "Little Yan, I was dragged over here."