In the fifteenth year after Xuantong abdicated, the gunfire at Baoding Military Academy had not yet dissipated. Li Wenlong returned to Qingyang with his ideals, only to find that his home was in ruins.
The father was forced to be critically ill by the warlord Ma Zhenshan, the ancestral "Wenyuan Pavilion" bookstore was smashed into ruins, and the sister's tears were colder than the frost in the late autumn of Peking. The student uniform, which symbolized honor, was shattered into strips of cloth under Ma Jiajun's whip - he finally understood that the "Plan to Save the Nation" in the textbook was only stained with blood on the ground in troubled times.
For the sake of life in the empty rice vat, he snatched the first gun from the tax collector Wang Ermazi; for the sake of his father's lungs coughing up blood, he sneaked into the sealed bookstore late at night and dug out two things from the secret compartment: a volume of Qingyang City Defense Map that his father spent twenty years of hard work on, and a rusty Hanyang-made weapon - a weapon sharper than hatred.
He walked into the bandit's den in Black Wind Ridge and convinced the ruthless Black Panther with three accurate marksmanship and the map that contained the secrets of the arsenal. When the tactical drawings of the military cadets meet the bloody bravery of the forest heroes, and when the sewage in the culvert of the dyeing shop overflows the brand-new leather shoes, a hunt for Ma Zhenshan quietly begins: what they want is not gold and silver, but the key to the arsenal, the longevity lock engraved with the word "Nian" on Zhao Hu's waist, and the heads of the evil wolves entrenched in Qingyang.
The fire in the east of the city turned half the sky red, and the iron door of the arsenal burst open amidst the sound of explosives. The moment Li Wenlong pulled the trigger, he finally saw clearly what his father had not said before he died: The so-called return home is never about going back to the past, but about using bullets and bones to re-carve the appearance of home on the ruins.
