The Soldier King at the Corner Store: Broke, So I Became a Mercenary

Ten years ago, he was the “Ghost” who dominated international battlefields, a man with a single blade who struck fear into countless forces. Ten years later, he goes by Lin Yuan and runs a shabby little shop in an old alley in Nanjiang. He spends his days making tea and playing with cats, living a laid-back life with only a lazy black cat and a simpleminded mutt for company.

He thought he could hold on to this peaceful life, but the shop’s rent, the cat and dog food, and his steadily dwindling bank balance were making him increasingly anxious. Then a desperate mother came to his door with a million yuan in cash, pleading for help to save her daughter, who had been tricked into going abroad to a “blood diamond mine.”

In principle, Lin Yuan only wants to be a law-abiding citizen. But he can barely afford to eat, let alone pay the rent due soon or feed the hungry mouths of his pets. For the money, and for the last remnants of his sense of justice, he decides to take up his blade again and venture alone into the dangerous mine, where he takes on the warlord’s forces head-on and brings the girl back safely.

He had hoped to hang up his sword for good, but the name “the convenience-store war god” soon spread far and wide. From then on, a legend about the owner of Lin’s General Store began to circulate in places swallowed by darkness. To protect the peace around him and help more broken families reunite, Lin Yuan’s blade would no longer be wielded for himself alone. Gradually, a band of like-minded companions gathered at his side. They are ghosts in the dead of night, hope for the weak, and the nightmare of every villain.