He was once the king of special forces who terrified the enemy on the border battlefield. He saved his comrades in a hail of bullets and also bore the weight of medals. But when the camouflage uniforms are replaced by casual clothes, the smoke at the border turns into the neon lights of the city, and the memories of the battlefield engraved in the bones become poison that gnaws at the soul.
Lu Zheng, who returned from the army and returned to his hometown, was haunted by the nightmare of post-war traumatic stress syndrome - the reflection of supermarket glass would make him mistake it for a scope, and the sound of a child's toy gun would trigger him to swing his fist at the "enemy". He wants to be an ordinary person: have a hot meal with his parents, and renew his relationship with his first love, Su Qing, but reality is pushing him into the abyss: the cost of surgery for his father's heart attack weighs heavily on him, and his "special forces" resume became a label for "violent tendencies" when applying for a job. Even the instructions of his former comrades to "keep the bottom line" are crumbling under the black market's debt collection deposits and the threats of gangsters.
From accidentally smashing the store of his debt collector to being forced to escort arms and get involved in drugs, he used the skills of a special forces soldier to go further and further on the criminal road, crushing Su Qing's trust and the expectations of his parents one by one. It wasn't until police wanted notices were plastered on the streets that he discovered that he was not being pursued by ordinary police officers, but by his brother Li Xiang, who fought alongside him back then, with the death order of "cleaning up the country" with the troops.
In a firefight in an abandoned factory, he rescued the kidnapped Su Qing, but became a wanted fugitive in the city; under the operating light in a suburban hospital, he killed for the first time to protect himself. The hallucinations of PTSD were full of images of his comrades falling; when he held the body of the girl who died to save him, he shouted into the air, "Comrades,
