Looking at Ai Guobei with tears streaming down his face, CEO Cheng knew this wasn't the time for him to play the victim.
"Riel, if he wants to die, let him die; give him a hand," he said.
CEO Cheng had long passed the point of no return. He was very greedy, delusional about swallowing more than he could chew, but now he didn't want to pay the price.
Old Ai, I went too far.
Perhaps one day I'll stand on the dock, but for now, I must move forward.
"NO! I don't want to die! Don't come any closer! I don't want to die!"
Cheng Daqi had also made choices in this very basement. That time, he won a most suffocating gamble and successfully ascended the ranks.
Today, he was once again at a crossroads, but things were ultimately different.
He had now become the Gru of the past, a perpetrator.
But Cheng Daqi was no longer conflicted or self-destructive.
