Young Master Qin (1)

Lennox Qin was the eldest child of the former Chairman of Qin Industries, a company that was established by Lennox's great-grandfather. Like any influential and large family, there was fierce competition. Greed and backstabbing were usual occurrences in the Qin family.

Of his grandfather's five children, his father, Richard Qin, the fourth child, came out victorious in the race for the company's succession. He was expected to continue the legacy of their hundred-year-old company.

However, despite his victory, Lennox's father was incapable of growing the company and keeping up with their competitors. He was also a known womanizer, fathering several children with his mistresses. Unlike Lennox, these children never got the same upbringing and were denied entry into the Qin family's estates. Though they bore the surname Qin, they were not considered part of the family.

Lennox's mother, Abigail Li, on the other hand was an art director and the only daughter of the Chairman of Starmedia. She was also a known socialite and media influencer. Still, when Lennox was five, she and her husband divorced and parted ways. Everyone was shocked to hear the news of their separation, but they didn't know that Lennox's mother was in love with his youngest uncle, Harvey Qin, his father's youngest brother.

Since the arranged marriage was already set between her and Lennox's father before she met the younger Qin brother, Abigail Li was forced to proceed with the wedding, feeling guilty that she wasn't able to resist her father's wishes and abandoning the man she loved the most.

After their wedding, Harvey Qin disappeared, and the Qin family had never heard from him again. This broke Abigail's heart. She blamed herself but couldn't do anything because she was now married. It was only after she gave birth to Lennox did she start getting better, but it was short-lived as her husband started chasing other women to spite her for loving another man.

Lennox couldn't understand why his mother endured living with the cheating man for years before divorcing his father for good. He witnessed how she discreetly cried at night while pretending everything was alright. He ached for her but could do nothing besides staying by her side. However, when the divorce was finalized, his custody ended with his father, forbidding his mother from seeing him.

This only made Lennox resent his father more, and he did everything to annoy him. For him, the concept of family meant looking out for his greedy relatives. As for his half-siblings, he never cared about them so long as none of them would obstruct his way. He didn't even bother to meet them in person.

However, despite their divorce, Richard Qin had never remarried, though he never lacked female company over the next few years. Seeing the sour relationship between his fourth son and Lennox, the Qin family's patriarch took Lennox under his care and groomed him as the next successor, much to his relatives' disappointment.

They were all smiles when talking to him, but Lennox knew better. It was one thing to be beaten by his father, but having to lower their heads to Lennox was already insulting to them. They looked down on him and refused to acknowledge him as the next heir. Perhaps they thought that Lennox would also lose his right to become the successor if they got rid of their brother.

Lennox Qin had just finished his master's degree overseas and recently returned to join the Qin Industries. He didn't want to meet his father, but his old man insisted they should meet and have a word after years of estrangement. The Qin Industries' main rival, the Cheng Group, had been catching up to them. Both companies were in the same industry, and their patriarchs had a long history of odd friendship and rivalry.

His father wanted his input to help the company release the first automatic self-driving car they'd been working on for over a year. As for his grandfather, the old man had been in the ICU because of a stroke he had suffered six months ago and couldn't help the company at all.

However, after his meeting over dinner with his father, who would have known that their car would be involved in a car accident. Their car was taking the right lane and was about to cross an intersection when a dump truck from the other lane of the intersection lost its control and hit the right side of their car. The impact was so strong that the car was pushed to the other side for several meters and was crumpled and bent like a thin can.

His father and their driver died on the spot while Lennox barely came out alive from the accident. The car caught fire, and their bodyguards had difficulty pulling him out. Not only did he suffer from burns, but his legs were also damaged, leaving him crippled.

Lennox suspected that someone had instigated the accident, but it would be hard for him to uncover who was behind it. None of his relatives bothered to check on him now as they were busy holding a funeral for his father. Thankfully, his best friend, Gavin, came to his rescue.

He knew he shouldn't take out his frustration on his best friend, but the pain he was in and his frustrations - knowing that he might never walk again, got the best of him. But who would have thought someone would dare hit him in the face like this?

He looked up and saw a young woman with cold obsidian eyes looking down at him. There was no doubt that this young woman was a cold beauty, but as he stared into this woman's eyes, he felt like he was staring into a cold, deep abyss that was hiding a violent nature at the bottom of its chasm.