The next day, Shang-Chi went to the Chen Residence to have breakfast. One day in 2024, Chen decided to take a resident's car for a joyride and pleaded with Shang-Chi to join her.

Despite the easy job, Shang-Chi and Chen disliked their job as being a valet workers, being bored of doing the same thing all of the time, and hoped to find another job. Shang-Chi became close to Chen's family during this time, often coming over to the Chen's apartment for breakfast before work. After graduating high school in 2017, Shang-Chi and Chen became valet workers for the Fairmont San Francisco company and Shang-Chi bought his own apartment. Chen, Shang-Chi, and Soo took his Mustang on a joyride. Chen combated this bullying by randomly bursting into the song ' Hotel California' as a distraction while she stole the bully's keys to his Ford Mustang. Shang-Chi was often bullied in school due to his Asian heritage, with people calling him 'Gangnam Style' despite the fact that he was not Korean. He enrolled in school, and met Katy Chen, Soo, and John, who became his close friends. Shang-Chi moved to San Francisco, California, and changed his name to Shaun to ensure his father would be unable to track him, though he did not realize that he was already being tracked. After killing his target, he decided not to return home and fled to the United States of America. Before he left, Shang-Chi told Xu Xialing that he would be back in three days. In 2014, at the age of fourteen, he was tasked by his father to kill the Iron Gang's leader. Shang-Chi trained well under the tutelage of Death Dealer, and eventually could beat over ten armed enemies at once. However, his father was proud of him and would take care of him. He was eager to please and would often exercise so hard his knuckles would bleed. Shang-Chi was trained relentlessly between the ages 7 - 14 to become an expert martial arts fighter and assassin. Shang-Chi's father soon became distant from him and his sister, due to them reminding him of their mother. Wenwu then told a traumatized Shang-Chi that 'A blood debt must be paid in blood' before asking him if he wanted to join him in his quest to kill his mother's killer.

After learning of the identity of his mother's killers, Shang-Chi accompanied Wenwu to a bar, where Wenwu attacked and killed several Iron Gang members in an attempt to find their leader. Shang-Chi was present when Xu Wenwu decided to reclaim the rings and rebuild his army. He then ran outside and held his mother's body as his father returned home and saw the carnage. His mother sent him and his sister, Xu Xialing inside, where they watched from a window as their mother was killed by the Iron Gang. While Ying Li was teaching Shang-Chi the special martial arts style of the Ta Lo people, the Gang barged through the front gate. The family led a happy life until a past rival of his father, the Iron Gang, attacked their home. One day, after his mother told these stories, while folding origami dragons, she gifted Shang-Chi a green pendant necklace telling him that it could lead him home if he ever got lost. During his childhood, his mother would often tell him about how his father had been the wielder of a set of mythical rings for thousands of years, how she and his father met, and the legend of Ta Lo and the Great Protector. Xu Shang-Chi was born to Xu Wenwu and Ying Li and was raised at the Ten Rings Headquarters in the mountains of China. Returning home, he began studying the rings when they emitted a signal. When his father sacrificed himself to save him, Shang-Chi inherited his mystical rings to defeat the Soul Eaters. Eventually, the Ten Rings targeted Shang-Chi once again, so he joined forces with Chen and his sister Xu Xialing in order to oppose Wenwu in his quest to breach the Dark Gate of Ta Lo, which unleashed the Dweller-in-Darkness and the Soul Eaters. Seeking to start a new life outside of his father's shadow, Shang-Chi fled to the United States of America, maintaining a peaceful life in San Francisco under the name Shaun with his friend Katy Chen. Since his childhood, Shang-Chi underwent a brutal training regime that turned him into a formidable martial artist however, on a mission to avenge his mother's death, he chose to abandon the Ten Rings and leave his family past behind. Xu Shang-Chi (Chinese: 徐尚氣) is the son of Xu Wenwu and Ying Li, the older brother of Xu Xialing, and the current wielder of the Ten Rings. she would hate the person I've become.' ―Shang-Chi to Katy Chen I thought that I could change my name, start a new life, pretend like it never happened, but. I told you I couldn't go through with it. 'When my dad sent me to find the man who killed my mom.

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