It Will All Be Mine

Yes, yes, yes. It will all be mine. Once I exposed the Qings for their crimes—once I had gotten away with mine, I will be able to win the hearts of the people, all their love will be mine and the people at the government will have to choose me as the next president because of that.

Senator Chang Yan laughed in his mind. "I'll be able to have it all," he whispered to himself.

The senator had a rough childhood, her mother had been a housemaid and his father worked in construction. There shouldn't have been a sliver of future in the cards for him. After seeing his parents lose their jobs repeatedly, their stomachs grumbling, not enough coal to keep them warm, and holding his mother as she died of pneumonia, he had vowed to himself he would never let another child suffer the same the fate as he did. He was going to make a better future—a better world.