That stick smashed the brain of a genius, but opened up the world of three brothers. In the late summer of 1998, Hu Ke, a top student, suffered a bloody head injury and ruined his future in order to save his brother. In order to raise life-saving money, Lin Wenjie and his friends were forced to enter the casino, and from then on they were ups and downs in the light of swords and money. That summer, their friendship was worth twenty dollars, a bottle of soda, and a crisp clink.
Later, their friendship was worth a broken finger, a huge debt, a life, and a hasty escape. From the sunny campus alleys, to the bloody underground casinos, to the killings between brothers...
Lin Wenjie, Hu Ke, Wu Peng, Zhang Jian—four names, an elegy of youth carved with blood and pain.
They thought they were messing around in the world, but in the end they found out that they were dealing with a fate that they could never come back from.
