Snowy Night is a gangster-themed novel set in a small northeastern town in the late 1990s. The story revolves around the protagonist Wang Dahu and tells the story of how an ordinary young man embarked on a path of no return step by step under the pressure of life. Wang Dahu was originally an ordinary factory boy. Because his mother was seriously ill and needed surgery money, he had to borrow money from the local gang leader Zhao Si. In order to repay the debt, he was forced to join Zhao Si's gang and entered the world from then on. In this world full of violence and betrayal, Wang Dahu experienced brotherhood, power struggle, and love entanglements, and gradually transformed from a simple young man into a ruthless underworld figure. Through Wang Dahu's perspective, the novel shows the various urban conditions in a small northeastern city in the late 1990s: the social unrest caused by the wave of layoffs, the growth and spread of evil forces, and the struggle of ordinary people to survive. In this special era, everyone is fighting for their own survival, and the boundaries between good and evil have become blurred.