“If you’re rich, don’t go to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou. If you’re down on your luck, you have to make your way to Fangchenggang.” Eighteen-year-old Lin Feng was a pampered young heir one moment, then plunged from the clouds into hell the next when his family went bankrupt and both his parents died under mysterious circumstances. His relatives turned cold, and the world despised him. Only his girlfriend, Su Wanqing, stayed by his side, the last glimmer of light in his darkest hour.
With 3,000 yuan and everything on the line, he headed for this legendary border city, hoping to find a way out. Instead, he stumbled into an even more brutal vortex of darkness. There, he forged a bond with A Qiang and struggled alongside him at the bottom of society. His brother took the blame for him and went to prison. But the woman he once loved joined forces with Qin Shixiong, the enemy who killed his father, and pushed him into the abyss. After getting out of prison, his brother grew resentful and defected to their sworn enemy, taking vital resources with him. Xiao Mei, the only woman who understood him, bled out in the streets protecting him.
Three betrayals crushed every trace of warmth. Lin Feng shut his heart away and tempered himself in the deadly world of smugglers. He made cunning his blade and ruthlessness his armor, building a crew and fighting for territory as he took revenge one step at a time through blood and violence. The waves of Fangchenggang churned with greed and crime. He was a rising kingpin in the darkness, caught between the flames of revenge that would burn everything down and the faint glimmer of redemption still lingering in his heart. When his vengeance was finally complete, he would have to make his ultimate choice between ruling the darkness and finding a path to rebirth.
