On the summer night of 2005, the old town of Linhai City. Twenty-year-old Chen Mo broke into an underground casino single-handedly to save his neighbor's sister who was forced by loan sharks, but was accidentally involved in the assassination of Uncle Qi, a patriarch of the Hongmen Society. Uncle Qi, who was dying, gave him a bronze token and left a message: "Go to the Old City God's Temple... To check out the Sihai Group..."
Chen Mo, who could have stayed out of the matter, decided to take over the blood-stained token after discovering that his father's death was related to a batch of smuggled cultural relics that disappeared ten years ago. From then on, he stepped into the center of the whirlpool of Linhai City's underground world - on one side was the careerist Brother Bao who was trying to control the Hongmen Society, on the other was the business giant Sihai Group who was laundering his name, and on the other side was Lin Wei, a mysterious woman whose identity was a mystery and who claimed to "repay the favor."
Starting from collecting debts on the streets, Chen Mo relied on his extraordinary courage and innate sense of danger to carefully navigate the gray area. He packaged small loans as legitimate businesses, used logistics companies to cover secret transactions, and collected intelligence from all parties in the chess and card room. With each step he takes, he gets closer to the truth about his father's death and deeper into the dark heart of Game of Thrones.
This is a road of no return. Brothers may betray, allies switch sides at any time, and the boundaries between white and black are increasingly blurred. Chen Mo must find his own rules of survival in the dark night of this city - don't be a hero, don't be a villain, just be the person who survives to the end. And the secret that changed the fate of countless people ten years ago is gradually coming to light with his rise...
