When the wealthy couple saw their newborn’s face, the mother gasped, “Take him away, he’s a monster.” They abandoned him at the hospital. A kind nurse raised him. Twenty years later, the couple desperately needed a rare surgery. The world-famous surgeon walked in, revealed his birthmark, and…

crystallized in my mind: I wouldn’t just succeed in spite of them. I was going to dismantle the very empire they had chosen over me.

Chapter 2: The Architecture of Vengeance

Grief is a passive emotion; rage is an engine. And for the next twelve years, I ran my engine entirely in the red.

I did not waste a single erg of energy on teenage rebellion or performative continue reading …