The Billionaire's Forgotten Star

Sample · The Cold King Of Shanghai

Shanghai glittered beneath the night sky.From the towering skyscrapers to the luxurious hotels lining the city streets, everything seemed to shine with wealth and power. Expensive cars rolled past the grand entrance of the Li International Hotel, where the most influential people in the city had gathered for one of the year's most exclusive business parties.Tonight, everyone wanted to be noticed.Everyone wanted to impress someone.And everyone wanted to catch the attention of one man.Ethan Li.At twenty-eight, Ethan was the youngest and most feared billionaire in Shanghai. As the CEO of Li Group, he controlled a business empire that stretched across several industries. His name alone could silence a room, and his cold stare was enough to make even experienced businessmen reconsider their words.Handsome, wealthy, and impossibly arrogant, Ethan was the kind of man people admired from a distance.Nobody dared to get too close.Not because he lacked charm, but because he had no interest in making people comfortable.He preferred silence to conversation, work to friendship, and control to uncertainty.And he hated being touched.Ethan was a strict germaphobe. He disliked unnecessary physical contact and could barely tolerate people standing too close to him. His personal space was a boundary few people dared to cross.Unfortunately for everyone around him, he had no intention of changing."Mr. Li, the chairman of Shen Corporation has arrived," his personal assistant, Daniel, informed him.Ethan barely glanced up from his phone."Then he can wait."Daniel swallowed. "But, sir, he's been waiting for almost fifteen minutes."Ethan slowly raised his eyes."Did I ask you to tell me how long he's been waiting?""No, sir.""Then stop talking."Daniel immediately fell silent.That was Ethan Li: cold, impatient, and completely unmoved by other people's feelings.Yet behind the expensive suits, powerful connections, and carefully controlled expression was a boy who had never truly recovered from the night his childhood ended.At seven years old, Ethan had witnessed the murder of his parents.The murderer was his own uncle.Ethan had seen enough to know the truth, but his uncle had never discovered that the little boy had witnessed what happened. Instead, the man had played the role of a loving guardian, hiding his cruelty behind a false smile.Ethan's aunt's wife had made his childhood even more miserable, treating him like an unwanted burden whenever nobody important was watching.But Ethan had endured it.He studied relentlessly, built his strength, and eventually became the powerful CEO everyone feared.He had one purpose: to uncover the truth and make his uncle pay for what he had done.There was only one other thing Ethan had never forgotten.A little girl.A rainy night.And a piece of ca...

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