Wildland Band

Han Chen is a wild stallion with the reins snapped, a heart wrapped in coarse sandpaper.

He grew up rough on the fringes of the city, with hard fists and a short fuse. He's either fighting or on his way to a fight. His unruly hair is his battle flag, and the impatience in his eyes is his declaration of defiance against this messed-up world. But don't be fooled by appearances: the order in his rundown room could rival a Swiss bank. CDs, cassettes, and vinyl records cover every wall and fill every cabinet, carefully sorted, from Bach's fugues to the snarling roar of underground grindcore. Music is the only cure for the restless beast inside him, and the soundproof wall he's built to hold back the void.

In Wuhan, a furnace of a city steeped in the rough-and-tumble spirit of the jianghu, he meets her: a girl who sings songs with the same fierce cool as Hedgehog. Two unruly souls collide, lighting the fuse on a band. The sweat in the rehearsal room, the roar of their first performance, the brotherhood between bandmates, the unspoken current between him and the girl on vocals... Music is no longer a refuge. It becomes the fuel that ignites him, frees him, and remakes him.

Follow Han Chen into this boiling pot of youth: watch him fight, listen to the bizarre records he collects, feel his restless hormones, and join him in Wuhan's jianghu as one deafening performance after another gives the title of