00:00Everyone called him El Niño Dorado, the Golden Boy.
00:05Mateo, the only son of a shipping magnate, didn't just have wealth.
00:10He had a gravitational pull of indulgence that dent the world around his whims.
00:17His life was a series of beautiful, transient obsessions.
00:22Each one discarded the moment it bored him.
00:25The drama was not in a single grand act, but in the trail of glittering wreckage he left behind.
00:34There was the boutique hotel in Tulum, a passion project he insisted his father finance.
00:42He poured millions into it, micromanaging every seashell tile bathroom.
00:48He hosted a legendary opening party, then, three months later, declared it predictable.
00:57He lost interest, stopped paying the managers, and let the jungle slowly reclaim the pristine buildings, leaving 50 people without jobs.
01:07There was Sophia, the brilliant pianist.
01:11He pursued her with the intensity of a new hobby, filling her dressing room with roses, charming her reclusive heart.
01:21He convinced her to leave her symphony and focus on a solo album he would bankroll.
01:27Six months in, as she was deep in recording, he drifted.
01:32The funding vanished.
01:34Her spot in the symphony was gone.
01:36He left her with half-finished songs and a shattered confidence.
01:42Then came his eco-village phase.
01:45He bought a tract of pristine farmland, evicting generational tenants with cold, legal efficiency.
01:53He promised a self-sustaining paradise.
01:56Bulldozers arrived.
01:59Ancient olive trees were ripped out, and the foundation was poured.
02:04But the engineering was flawed.
02:06A cost-cutting measure he'd approved on a whim.
02:11When the first storm came, the foundation washed into the local river, poisoning the water with concrete slurry.
02:19The project was abandoned, leaving a scar on the land and a community in ruin.
02:25The climax came at his father's 70th birthday gala.
02:30The old man, finally facing the scale of the debts and lawsuits, was to announce his retirement and the careful, humbling restructuring of the empire.
02:41Dressed in his finest, Matteo watched, bored from a balcony.
02:47His father spoke of responsibility, legacy, and difficult choices.
02:53The word austerity hung in the air.
02:57Matteo, feeling the party's energy dip, decided it needed life.
03:03A caprice.
03:05He'd always wanted to firework from the rooftop.
03:08He slipped away, bribed a security guard, and launched his private, illegal display.
03:15The first rocket screamed into the sky.
03:19Then, a misfire.
03:21A burning flare shot sideways, crashing through the glass roof of the historic ballroom.
03:28It didn't hit anyone, but the panic was instant.
03:32A stampede erupted.
03:34Jewels and dignity lost in the scramble.
03:38The vintage curtains caught fire.
03:40The sprinklers doused everything.
03:43Guests, heirlooms, his father's speech.
03:46Standing amid the chaos, the smoke, and the screams, Matteo finally saw it.
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