Everything -Not So- Nice

"I didn't want to have to burn down the world, either. But just look... at what you made me do."

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Carmela Chen was a movie star- extravagant, gorgeous, and talented. Not only was she an A-lister, her fiancé was successful, and her family was prominent. Living a life of glamour, wealth, and fame, no matter how one looked at her, she was a woman who had it all.

But that was just what everybody saw.

With every step she took, underneath her red bottoms, there was another kind of red, because becoming a woman who sat at the top of the food chain never happened without sacrifices.

And the sacrifices she'd had to make? They had transformed her into the worst version of herself. The her she loved the most.

Her money, her career, and her humanity- all three were inextricably linked with the shadows of another life that slept when she smiled for the cameras. One that had been born and built with blood and acid in the trenches of the underworld.