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."
be bent solely on profit
The rosy clouds are slowly rising - yún zhēng xiá wèi
beat drums and clang gongs -- in + battle - jī gǔ míng jīn
full of difficult and unpronounceable words - jié qū áo yá
Cut the heart and cut the tongue - cái xīn lòu shé