Volume 1: The Beginning Chapter Prologue Jade Shatters

  The Victoria Hotel is not the tallest building in the city, nor is it the most luxurious in appearance, but it is the most famous consumption paradise in the city, where you can find anything you can think of to consume.

  Perhaps the world's top model who was still strutting down the catwalk in Paris yesterday, was lying on the bed in the presidential suite of the Victoria Hotel this morning, waiting for a certain guest to bestow his favors.

  Perhaps in a certain room, a game is being held with each round worth tens of millions of dollars. Perhaps casually ordering a drink here can make a well-off family go bankrupt...

  There are numerous world-class luxury cars parked at the hotel entrance, including stretched Lincolns, Rolls-Royces, Bentleys and Lamborghinis. On the rooftop, there are also two rotorless helicopters. At the international airport tens of miles away, there is a dedicated feeder plane for the Victoria Hotel.

  On the coastline outside the numbers, there is also a private dock belonging to the Victoria Grand Hotel, where not only luxury cruise ships are berthed, but even sightseeing submarines that can dive deep into the sea.

  These luxury cars, helicopters, propeller planes, luxury liners and sightseeing submarines are all special transportation tools used by the hotel to pick up guests. As long as the guest makes a phone call, no matter how far away the guest is, the hotel will dispatch the corresponding vehicle according to the guest's requirements for pickup.

  It is said that Victoria Hotel will introduce small interstellar spacecraft as the hotel's new signboard due to strong demand from customers.

  Those who can afford to consume at the Victoria Hotel are either rich or noble, and having a membership card of the Victoria Hotel has also become a symbol of status and identity to some extent.

  The membership cards here are divided into multiple levels, with the lowest being Silver Card and the highest being Diamond Card.

  Even the lowest-level silver card requires being at least a municipal leader or a billionaire, while the top-level diamond card is said to have issued less than fifty cards worldwide, with half of its holders ranking among the world's top 100 richest individuals.

  Here boasts the world's most trained security personnel, with the strictest security measures in the world, ensuring that every member can enjoy safe, comfortable, and all-round services.

  On this day, at the checkpoint set up by the Victoria Hotel on the outskirts, a commotion broke out. Two uniformed and capable security guards stopped someone who was trying to force their way into the Victoria Hotel with some helplessness.

  This man is over thirty years old, with a pair of glasses perched on the bridge of his nose. The eye bags hidden behind the lenses are slightly swollen and dark, with dense red blood vessels covering the whites of his eyes. His face has an unhealthy pale complexion, clearly indicating that he is not in good health.

  "Doctor, you are no longer a member here, please don't make it difficult for us. If you continue to pester like this, we can only take tough measures and drive you away." said one of the security guards.

  The security guards at the Victoria Hotel receive high salaries, so generous that many white-collar workers in multinational corporations are envious. The hotel treats them well and they are very loyal.

  If it were an ordinary person trying to force their way into the hotel, even if they had been a member before, they would have been driven away by now. But for this person in front of them, the security guards at Victoria Hotel felt more sympathy and pity.

  In the Victoria Hotel, anyone who knew a little about the inside story would know that this seemingly weak man in front of him was once a sensational figure.

  This doctor's experience is extremely brilliant, at the age of 29, he obtained a double Ph.D. in ancient science and technology history and biological genetics research, his knowledge is profound, academic expertise is meticulous, even his supervisor can't help but praise him.

  He once assisted his mentor in compiling the book "A History of Modern Science and Technology in the World", which was published later and even won praise from relevant departments of the United Nations. His Ph.D. in ancient science and technology history was also obtained during the process of assisting his mentor in compiling this book.

  The doctor's high IQ was a bit excessive, and while assisting the instructor in compiling books, he followed the clues of modern science and technology, and actually started inventing, researching a new type of technology.

  This technology can promote plant growth at a relatively low cost, effectively shortening the growth cycle. This technology is non-toxic and not only retains the original properties of plants, such as taste and medicinal properties, but also has no drug residues, making it safe and reliable.

  After achieving research success, the PhD student eagerly told his supervisor. The supervisor was delighted and encouraged him to apply for a patent and start a company to promote and sell this technology.

  The doctor was grateful for his mentor's careful cultivation, and when he applied for a patent and set up a company, he made his mentor the second shareholder and gave him 30% of the company's shares free of charge.

  At that time, the doctor's clever brain would never have thought that it was his actions to repay his mentor's cultivation that became the root of his future demise.

  After the company was founded, it was extremely popular and quickly occupied the domestic and foreign markets. The doctor became famous overnight and became a world-renowned entrepreneur and scientist.

  The US Academy of Sciences has extended an olive branch to him, the Nobel Prize review committee is reviewing his results, and it is highly likely that he will be selected as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Biology for the new year. Invitations from the EU, Russia, South America, Australia and other countries and regions are pouring in so fast that they almost drowned him.

  Just as the doctor was full of ambition and literary elegance, a great disaster crept up on him, and his revered mentor unexpectedly turned against him.

  His mentor is also a well-known professor in the country, but he wants to go further and be evaluated as an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, becoming a heavyweight academic expert at home. However, his mentor's qualifications are slightly lacking, most importantly, there is no convincing research achievement that can be presented.

  If the doctor had added his name to the patent application, he might have qualified. But the doctor only gave him shares and did not share the invention rights with him. This mentor later betrayed the doctor and laid a fuse.

  At this time, a Taizidang with extraordinary influence in the domestic officialdom found him and offered conditions that his mentor could not resist.

  This tycoon has taken a liking to the doctor's company and wants to control this golden egg-laying hen for himself, monopolize it, and seize the billions of wealth brought by growth hormone.

  He told Sun Zesheng's supervisor that as long as he could assist him in getting a doctorate from the company, it would be easy for the supervisor to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences.

  The instructor, upon learning of the Tai Chi Party family background, surrendered without hesitation and chose to side with this Tai Chi Party, betraying his student.

  The mentor first deceived Sun Zesheng and transferred the high-priced shares given to him by the doctor to that Taizi Party. Then, under the guidance of Taizi Party, he advised the doctor to take out some of his shares in the name of encouraging employees' enthusiasm and reward them to employees.

  At that time, the doctor was too easy to believe in people. Although he had a certain understanding of the rules of the game in the business world, he was impulsive and wished to believe his mentor. Moreover, this practice of rewarding employees with shares is common in many companies.

  The doctor didn't think it over too carefully and decided to listen to the mentor. As a result, the shares in his hands quickly decreased, leaving only 31% remaining, still the largest shareholder of the company. If combined with the mentor, they could still occupy half of the company's shares.

  The mentor, in his presence, solemnly declared that he would definitely stand by him when it came to major decisions in the company. He turned around and celebrated with the prince's party, drinking champagne to celebrate the success of secretly calculating the doctor.

  After that, Taizi Party quickly took action, using high-priced acquisitions to lure benefits and at the same time using its power in official circles to intimidate those employees who held company shares, one by one, selling all their stocks.

  Tai Zi Party took advantage of the relationship, completed the share change procedures in the first place, and then held a board meeting, sitting in the chairman's position. At this time, the doctor suddenly found that he was abandoned by everyone, and the company he had built with one hand became someone else's thing.

  Tai Zi Party still wouldn't let go of the doctor, after all, the doctor still controlled one-third of the company's shares, and there was still a possibility of turning the tables. He used his family's influence in official circles to fabricate charges against him, and secretly instructed someone to leave behind clues such as fingerprints and footprints at the scene of a murder case that implicated the doctor's father.

  The local police department is within the sphere of influence of the Taiji Party family, so it naturally cooperated fully and quickly arrested the doctor's father, spreading unfavorable rumors about him.

  Afterwards, Tai Zi threatened Dr. 's family with their lives and demanded that he transfer the remaining shares in his hands to him at a low price.

  The doctoral student was indignant and refused to give in, reporting the incident everywhere and even hiring a lawyer to defend his father.

  Tai Zi Dang's heart was ruthless and his hands were cruel. Immediately, he arranged for someone to beat the doctor's father to death in prison, and then had someone poison the doctor's mother's food, killing her.

  The doctor sounded the alarm, that the Taizi Party utilized their family connections to bribe relevant personnel, and determined the cause of the doctor's father's death as sudden cardiac arrest, while determining the cause of the doctor's mother's death as food poisoning from eating unknown wild bacteria.

  The PhD went to and fro, appealing to the media, hiring people to post online shouting grievances, but under the strong intervention of the Taizi Party family, all these efforts sank into the sea, with no effect at all.

  At the same time, Taizi Party took advantage of his dominant position in the company's equity to openly transfer the company's high-quality resources to a company he completely controlled, preparing to hollow out the company founded by the doctor and make the remaining shares in the doctor's hands worthless.

  The doctor was disheartened and thoroughly lost hope for the future.

  After being cultivated by him and destroyed under the advice of his mentor, he endured unbearable heartache and transferred all the company's shares to that Taizi Party. According to market value, the shares in his hands were worth tens of billions, but Taizi Party only offered less than 10 million.

  He borrowed a lot of external debts to cry injustice for his parents, but the money given by Taizi Party was not enough to fill these holes. As a result, the once glorious Ph.D. fell to the point where he was so poor that he had nothing left.

  It was only natural that the Ph.D. lost his qualification to enter the Victoria Hotel. He had obtained a membership card here, thanks to the introduction of that Prince Party who called him brother. In the blink of an eye, it was this treacherous Prince Party who stabbed him in the heart again.

  "I know you're not easy either, don't worry, I won't make it difficult for you, and I won't force my way through. The position I'm currently occupying is outside the checkpoint you set up, it's public land. If I stand here for a while, shouldn't that be okay according to your rules?" The doctor spoke in a soft and gentle tone, with no hint of anger or sadness.

  Those security guards sympathized with the doctor's experience and believed that the doctor was a well-educated person, so they said: "As long as you don't make it difficult for us, it doesn't matter how long you stand outside the guard post. However, Doctor, we advise you to give up. You can't beat Mr. Cheng. With your double doctoral knowledge and extraordinary intelligence, if you calm down and focus, I believe it won't take long for you to rise again. Why bother coming here to intercept Mr. Cheng and compete with him?"

  "Past experience is a teacher for future events. Having gone through this once, would I still dare to start a company?" The doctor said calmly. "Let me tell you, you don't understand..."

  "Doctor, even if you don't start a company, you can still go abroad. With your knowledge, you will definitely make a name for yourself overseas. Didn't MIT invite you to be a professor?" The security guard advised with a bitter tone.

  Just then, a horn sounded behind the doctor. He turned around to see a limited edition Ferrari convertible, and the young master who had taken over his company was sitting in it, with a bodyguard assigned by the family as the driver.

  The sports car was still dozens of meters away from the Victoria Hotel, but Dr. didn't hesitate and ran towards the sports car, opening his arms wide and standing in the middle of the road, blocking its path. The car came to a stop, and the bodyguard got out of the car, charging furiously at Dr.

  The doctor's mouth corner floated a cold smile, took out a black thing, like a hand grenade, and threw it into the sports car.

  That well-trained bodyguard was shocked, and without hesitation, he rushed towards the hand grenade. He had originally intended to kick it away, but Sun Zesheng's throw was too cunning, making it impossible for him to kick. He could only use his body to block the grenade, hoping to use his flesh and blood to stop it and give that Taizi Party member, Mr. Cheng, a chance to escape with his life.

  The doctor had secretly rehearsed for this moment countless times. He suddenly sprang into action, rushing to the sports car before Taiziparty could get in and start the engine, and hugged Taiziparty tightly, who had caused his family to be ruined.

  "That hand grenade I had just now was a toy I bought, a fake one used for scaring people. This is the real thing."

  The doctor exerted himself and pushed the Taizidang with his chest, on which he had tied a self-made explosive. This explosive could not be found in the patent library, it was a new type of high-explosive explosive, which was formulated by the doctor himself. This explosive was even undetectable by the security system of the Victoria Hotel.

  At the moment the explosive seal was triggered, the doctor saw a familiar-looking silver box on the passenger seat and almost subconsciously released one hand to grab towards the silver box.

  A deafening roar, the earth shook, and a black mushroom cloud rose into the air.

  In the middle of the mushroom cloud, there was a faint black hole, from which a faint suction force was transmitted. When the mushroom cloud disappeared, the black hole also disappeared.

  Doctor, Taizi Party and that Ferrari sports car all vanished into thin air in an instant, replaced by a large pit over ten meters square and more than three meters deep.

  With a loud thud, a head the size of a watermelon, connected to a small section of torso, flew in front of the security guards at the entrance of the Victoria Hotel. Only then did Mr. Cheng, the Taizi Party's mastermind, have his eyes wide with fear, regret and disbelief.

  Until death, none of the Taizi Party believed that the naturally weak doctor would choose this tragic way of rather being shattered jade than a whole tile, and perish together with him.