Brian Clark slowly loosened his hand, and the scrap of newspaper in the center of his palm was carried away by the wind. Four scraps of newspaper, each only half a page, drifted away into the night with the breeze, disappearing until Brian Clark could no longer see them. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck straight down from the sky onto Brian Clark's forehead, and instantly everything went black before his eyes...

Scenes from the past echoed in Brian Clark's consciousness. From childhood to adulthood, over twenty years of his life replayed again and again...

He was a child from the countryside, but his father was the descendant of a certain business family—a typical second-generation rich playboy. Because he got into trouble in the city, he fled to the countryside to hide for two years. During those two years, relying on his handsome looks and fashionable style, with both money and charm, his father managed to win over the most beautiful girl in the village. But his father was worse than a beast; after getting the girl pregnant, he left as soon as the two years were up, leaving behind nothing but his name. The girl went to the city to look for him several times, but how could a country girl ever find such a playboy? In the end, the girl gave birth to Brian Clark in her own home, weeping blood...

Brian Clark was born into such an environment. No one in the family liked him, not even his mother. And because she had a child to care for, his mother had no choice but to marry a lazy man in the village in his thirties. Thus, Brian Clark's childhood was spent in humiliation and abuse. When he was five, his hand was broken from a beating. Being naturally clever, he realized that if he stayed any longer, it would be a dead end. So at the age of five, he and a group of vagrant children from outside the village snuck onto a train heading south, and he arrived in Shenzhen...

The life of a street child was full of hardship and pain. Relying on his quick wits, nimble hands, and looks more handsome than most, Brian Clark managed, by the age of twelve or thirteen, to become a small leader among the vagrant children. Although he was still under the control of some big thugs and had to go out pickpocketing every day, at least he secretly managed to save up some money.

At fifteen, Brian Clark seized an opportunity to steal a large sum of money from the big thugs. He immediately left Shenzhen and settled in a small town in the south. The money was actually protection money the thugs were offering to higher-level gangsters—over three hundred thousand yuan in total. Adding his own savings of several tens of thousands, Brian Clark rented a very simple single room in the small town. Living frugally, he spent less than eight hundred yuan a month, and with the extra money, Brian Clark bought books: textbooks from elementary school onward, all kinds of knowledge books, and many extracurricular or social information books. Having never attended school, Brian Clark began to teach himself in that humble little room, and he studied for five years...

In five years, Brian Clark went from learning to read to mastering knowledge up to the level of a doctoral candidate. He had completely absorbed it all. He finally realized that he was the genius described in those books. He didn't even need to test his IQ—he knew it was at least 180, maybe higher. He was a genius...

"Heaven gave me talent for a reason! I survived so many hardships since childhood and have endured countless sufferings. Heaven must want me to accomplish something great. That's right, I am the one chosen by fate, just like those people mentioned in ancient history books... a man of destiny. I am someone with a mandate from heaven!"

At that moment, Brian Clark became convinced of his purpose in life: he was born to create miracles, and his very existence was destiny!

Though it sounded absurd, Brian Clark truly believed it. He left that small town, and with the more than one hundred thousand yuan he still had, he went to another prosperous coastal town. Besides giving himself a makeover, he also bribed several local tax officials. Then, he claimed to be the son of a major company's director, coming to the town to discuss business. Through his clever planning and a barrage of bribes, he quickly gained the trust of several local small and medium-sized companies, and then swindled over a million yuan from them in one go. Brian Clark then made a swift getaway. After spending more than two hundred thousand yuan in bribes, he successfully made his way from mainland China to Hong Kong...

It had to be admitted, Brian Clark truly was a genius. In his five years of self-study, he had mastered law, taxation, finance—he knew them all inside out. And convinced that he was a man of destiny, Brian Clark had no fear of failure or being caught. With nerves of steel and over a million yuan as his backing, he indeed pulled off scam after scam in Hong Kong. He even used the "robbing Peter to pay Paul" method: using the money he swindled to scam others, and using his new business partners as proof to scam even more partners. In this way, the scams snowballed, and when his funds reached tens of millions, he quietly left Hong Kong. It was only several months later that the massive fraud case in Hong Kong finally broke out...