1973, Xiangjiang. In the Kowloon Walled City where heavy rain poured down, young boy Chen Qihao knelt in front of his father's cold corpse. A well-designed frame-up caused the family garment factory to change owners, and even led to a murder. The blood feud has not been avenged, but the creditor has already arrived and forced the young man to a dead end.
In a desperate situation, the ancient and mysterious power awakened in his mind - the "Loyalty Hall" system responded to the call, and hundreds of thousands of dead soldiers were waiting for dispatch.
From then on, undercurrents surged along the banks of the Xiangjiang River. In the middle of the night in Sham Shui Po, twelve dead men with red sticks slashed at the master of Shing Ho Hall; on the rooftop of Yau Ma Tei, the zero-cost "Meteor Garments" operated day and night, stirring up the industry; on the freighter in Victoria Harbor, the dead men quietly took over the dock to build his logistics empire.
From the bloody turmoil in the Kowloon Walled City to the capital game in the Mandarin Hotel; from the black money chaos before the establishment of the ICAC to the shocking reversal in the 1973 stock market crash. Chen Qihao uses dead soldiers as chess pieces, making moves on the border between light and darkness, making every move.
He is a business wizard in the eyes of night school teacher Fang Wanting, and he is also the "King of the Walled City" who is talked about in the underground world. When the old enemy Yifeng Matheson finally discovered the mastermind behind the scenes, an ultimate showdown across the business world, gangs and political circles took place in this neon-lit city of desire.
This is a story about revenge and rise, and how in Hong Kong in the 1970s, a hundred thousand absolutely loyal lives were used to create a legend of light and darkness.
