The Rise of the Southern Owl

A classroom bullying incident shatters Chen Xiao’s ordinary youth. To save a girl he doesn’t even know, he stands alone against a beating and endures the cold stares of everyone around him. With the support of Wang Tao, the local kingpin from a neighboring county, he rises step by step from the schoolyard, taking on the county and then the city. In the battle for supremacy, Wang Tao is killed, and Chen Xiao turns completely ruthless, crushing every rival faction and rising to the top of southern Shu. But all that glittering prosperity proves to be an illusion. The law closes in, and a generation’s underworld king meets a tragic end. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.