Hunting Spies in the Courtyard, the District Chief Offers Me a Cigarette and Calls Me Dad!

He Man wakes up to find himself the scapegoat at a tavern in a Beijing courtyard house. His father has set him up, his brother bullies him, and the customers mock him. So he flips the table and spills the place’s dirty secrets on the spot: “You’ve been watering down the liquor, haven’t you? This place is mine now!”

By day, he’s the police station’s star instructor; by night, he’s the tavern owner who has connections on both sides of the law. The silk shop proprietress and the brewing beauty even compete for his attention. His Wing Chun and medical skills earn him a special recruitment offer from the police, and even the steel mill director begs him to come cook!

Everyone used to think he was an inexperienced young upstart. But just a few days later, the district chief is offering him a cigarette with a smile. He grins and punches a sandbag to smithereens. “I, He Man, am going to stir up the waters of this whole capital!”