Hong Kong Films: Lock Me Up for Six Months, and I'll Return Invincible

After taking the blame for his gang and spending six months in prison, Zhou Heng bound himself to an All-Purpose Learning System inside Stanley Prison. While others served their time by counting the days, he treated his cell as a training camp. He learned the rules of the underworld from Chung Tin-ching of Prison on Fire, financial operations from white-collar criminals, gambling tricks from old cardsharps, and devoured every book in the prison library. By the day he was released, his skill panel was so packed he had to scroll: Grandmaster-level combat, Grandmaster-level medicine, Master-level gambling, advanced cooking, advanced makeup, advanced lockpicking...

Gang boss Kwun forgot all about him long ago, and his police handler had died unexpectedly in the line of duty, leaving no one to meet him. Zhou Heng realized he was a kite with its string cut: he had no backing in the gang, and no records to return to the police force. It didn't matter. He had never planned to be anyone else's weapon again.

His old house in Kowloon Walled City happened to be next door to Chu Yuen-fong from School on Fire, while Yuen Mei from The Greed of Man lived across the hall. When Siu-sau-gor's underlings cornered Chu Yuen-fong in the corridor, they ran into him. A few puffs of a cigarette later, he had sent them to the hospital with a slap. The assignable points on his System panel were still climbing, and for his next mission target, he was thinking of Causeway Bay.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.