He must kill three people: a tyrant who oppresses the people, a secret police chief, and a Japanese commander.
He must love three people: a wife who stands by him through hardship, a beauty of troubled times, and a guide who leads him to faith.
He is Wang Qiaoying, the king of Shanghai’s shadowy underworld. Starting out with nothing but a woodcutter’s axe, he becomes the guardian angel of the working poor.
But as the flames of the War of Resistance consume the chivalry of the jianghu, and communist ideals illuminate his soul, he realizes that what he has pursued all his life is not simply revenge and retribution.
When his final mission comes, dressed in white as pure as snow, he walks toward Waibaidu Bridge. Through a carefully planned martyrdom, he tells the world: the edge of this axe will, in the end, cleave a path to dawn.
This story is entirely fictional, written to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance and pay tribute to the heroes who fought the Japanese!
