"Once Upon a Time in the Northeast: Dragons and Tigers Behind Bars" tells the story of Zhao Weidong's dormancy and rise in the No. 1 Prison in Liaoning Province after he was imprisoned for revenge for his brothers. Faced with the oppression of evil forces such as "Northeast Tiger" Zhang Xiaolin and "Northwest Wolf" Ma Jianjun in the prison, he put away his "God of War" edge, endured humiliation, secretly observed, accumulated strength, and was a low-key prisoner who never caused trouble and was not afraid of trouble. From being a gangster to protecting the weak and punishing the villains, to gradually disintegrating and conquering the major factions, and taking the former arrogant prison bully as his own, behind bars, he used his fists as power and wisdom as strategy. Not only did he gain a firm foothold, but he also quietly weaved a network of contacts covering the entire prison, laying the most crucial foreshadowing for his comeback in the world after he was released from prison.
