Alexander Joe Ling is a successful business man, the third richest man in the entire world and the mysterious Ceo of AJL Cooperations. Many people know him by the name Xander Ling but not everyone has seen his face or met him directly, he prefers to be low key and enjoys privacy therefore he always made sure to stay out of spotlight so only a handful of people knows what he looks like.
Even though people have never seen Xander Ling, people know his names very well and they were aware of all his achievements and successes, after all he was only 15 years old when he started his own company from the scratch and now at the age of 28 his company is one of the top 3 best companies in the entire world.
Many people are curious about how this great man looked, there were even rumors that the reason he is hiding his face is because he was deformed and ugly but no one was able to verify any of this rumors because he continued to maintain his privacy.
While being at the top in the business world, what people didn't know was that he was the one and only King Of The Underworld, those who know him speak his name in whisper, they refer to him as the Demon lord, the ruthless beast and the heartless monster. He would not hesitate to destroy all those who dared to go against him and killing was almost an everyday occurrence for him, he was feared by his people and just a glare from him would make them drop to their knees.
Xander was feared and respected by his own people at the same time because some of them witnessed while the other heard stories at how he started working in the underworld at the young age of 10, and the first time he took a life he was only ten years old, he worked hard to achieve his positions whether it was in the business world or in the underworld.
They also respect Xander Ling because even while being the cold and ruthless monster that he was, he never harms the people that are innocent, and he has rules to prevent harming those that are innocent he treats those who are loyal to him right, he pays them a very good salary and even gives them a better living condition, as long as you don't incur his wrath or cross him then you can consider yourself safe from him
Xander Ling has never been associated with any woman neither in the business world nor in the underworld, he came across many beautiful woman who had tried to get his attention and seduce him because of his good looks and wealth but none of them dared to go close to him, they always acted coy and docile around him but Xander Ling never paid attention to any of them.
Sometimes his men would wonder if their boss was gay because they never saw him or heard of him being associated with any woman romantically, in fact he avoids them like they are nothing but insignificant flies but none of them dared to speak their opinions because they might lose their heads if it reaches the demon lord's ears.
When they witnessed how the girl who had been rescued by their master boldly confessed her feelings to him they were beyond shocked, some of them pitied the girl because the beast might assign his female soldiers to punish her. Sure he helped innocent women when he came across them but that doesn't mean he doesn't punish them accordingly when they dared to offend him or plot against him, and right now it seems like this fair lady has offended the great beast.
No girl has ever dared to confess to Xander directly, he has met many beautiful women who have tried to get his attention and seduce him but he never paid attention to any of them and none of them dared to tell him how they feel about him directly, so when Xander Ling heard this woman confessing to him and saying that he was her first love and that she would never forget him, and even though she had just seen him sentence those scums to be tortured and killed she still believes that he was a good person deep down? She must have a psychological problem in her head, or maybe she lost her senses because of the shock and trauma of being kidnapped because clearly the lady's brains had stopped working right, he thought.
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When Xander was done attending the meeting he got inside the car and ordered his driver to go straight to the main mansion, as they were still on the road the girl's words kept on ringing in his head, "love" he whispered. The word felt strange on his lips, ever since he was young Xander has never experienced anything called love in his life
He remembered his childhood, his father was a successful business man and his marriage to his mother was like a business deal to both of them, none of his parents ever showed him any sort of love or affection, sometimes he wouldn't see them for weeks because they were busy on a business trip and as a result he was raised by the maids, when he reached the age of eight years old his father's company went bankrupt and after that they went from being rich to having nothing. His mother wanted a divorce from her now useless husband, she never loved him anyway and now that he has nothing she didn't see the point in staying with him
Xander remembered that fateful night when he couldn't sleep he went out of his room and headed towards his parents room, as he was about to enter he heard his parents talking
"I want a divorce from you, you can keep the child" Xander heard his mother say to his father
"What? How dare you try to leave me now that I am bankrupt? You ungrateful wench! Have you forgotten how much you benefited from my business and now you want to throw the child at me and run away? If you give me X amount of money and agree to take the child only then will I divorce you" his father replied to his mother bitterly
"You useless old hag, I am not giving you a dime and I'm not keeping the child, I don't want anything to do with you anymore, so you must divorce me whether you like it or not"
Hearing his wife say this to him Joe Ling lost his cool and slapped her across the face until she fell on the ground, he was already drunk and in a bad mood so he lost all of his rationality and continued to beat her. When he saw his mother being beaten by his father the little Xander rushed into the room while crying and tried to stop his father but unfortunately he wasn't strong enough to do so.
His father threw Xander to the other side of the room and continued to beat his mother even after she had stopped moving, Xander was watching the scene and crying helplessly, there was only the three of them in the house and it was late at night he didn't know where to run and ask for help, when Joe Ling was finally tired of hitting his wife's unmoving body he wore his clothes and left the house, he promised himself to beat her some more tomorrow after she regained her consciousness, unbeknownst to him there will be no tomorrow for both him and her