"There is no such thing as 'getting what you deserve' or 'bringing this upon yourself,'" Ye Chen said, shaking his head. "Business is always volatile; no one can claim to be a perpetual victor. It’s like a game of chess: even the best player has moments of confusion. Sometimes, a single wrong move is all it takes to throw away a winning position and make the game incredibly difficult. It has nothing to do with fate or desert, because no one can guarantee they will never lose their focus."
"You are right. No one can guarantee they won't lose focus, and no one can claim they won't make mistakes. But to err at every turn, to stay muddled at every step, and to force a perfect position into a dead end? That is a failure of the player himself."
Xu Jia sighed. "To put it bluntly, it’s because I was too eager to 'slay the dragon.' The Old Secretary said something to me last night—that your assessment of me was: I rose on ambition, and I will fall on it. If I had heard that before, I might have brushed it off, but after I went home last night, I spent the entire night thinking about those eight words."
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