be bent solely on profit(wéi lì shì qú)

be bent solely on profit

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w é IL ì sh ì Q ú, which means to do everything for profit. It's from Jing Hua Yuan by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 12 of Jing Hua Yuan written by Li Ruzhen in Qing Dynasty: "in terms of the size of the crime, the person who slaughtered the ox was originally the culprit, but this generation is nothing more than ordinary people. They only know that profit is the trend, and they don't know the way to repay good and evil."

Chinese PinYin : wéi lì shì qú