[School + Underworld + Growth + Feel-good power fantasy + Brotherhood]
Transfer student Lu Mingyuan has barely started at Yuying Middle School when Zhang Meng, the “big boss” at the school gate, corners him in an alley. Protection money, stolen homework, and getting ambushed after school quickly become part of his everyday life.
He thinks keeping quiet will buy him some peace, until he sees a group of outsiders cornering a girl from his class. Zhao Lei, his deskmate who is always being bullied, grips a guitar with a broken string and stands in front of her. For the first time, Lu Mingyuan tightens his grip on the wrench in his schoolbag.
“Didn’t we agree that school problems get settled at school?”
From his first clash, standing up for a classmate, to rallying a crew to fight outside forces, they turn this seemingly peaceful middle school into their battleground. Desks are their strongholds, chalk is their signal, and their brothers’ fists give them courage. Some stand their ground to protect their friends, others waver when money is at stake, and some use the lessons in their textbooks to outsmart danger.
Once they leave the school gates, they are dragged into the real urban underworld: watching over a venue to pay medical bills, breaking into an underground casino to save a brother, and falling out with an established gang to defend their principles... The boys who once sat at their desks shed their innocence in the crucible of blood and fire, using ruthless decisiveness and extraordinary courage to seize territory and consolidate resources, step by step.
When Zhang Meng, who once bullied him, kneels before him and begs for mercy, and the entire city’s underworld bows to him, Lu Mingyuan stands atop a skyscraper and looks down at the sea of lights below. Only then does he realize he has long since gone from a boy at a school desk to an underworld king who makes the whole city tremble.
This is a passionate story of struggle, growth, and reaching the top. Watch this young man
