On a rainy night in a narrow alley, my cousin Lin Chen is about to be hacked to death.
I, Chen Mo, a timid younger brother not even worthy of having my name appear in the story, tremblingly pick up a steel pipe from the ground.
Everyone says that we cousins are opposites: one only knows how to smile while plotting, and the other only knows how to keep his head down and kill.
They got half of it right.
From the shadows of school bullying, to the blood-soaked streets ruled by gangs, and finally to the foot of this city's highest throne...
We temper trust through betrayal, cultivate power through schemes, and build our stairway from our enemies' bones.
Li Haoran, the original novel's golden-boy protagonist, once looked down on us as dirt beneath his feet.
Only when his business empire crumbled and he knelt in the rain did he finally see our faces in the shadows.
Su Qing, the original novel's heroine, cool and distant as moonlight, once wavered between two worlds.
Only after losing everything did she understand that some darkness, once entered, lasts forever.
This isn't a story about making a comeback.
It's an epic about two men with nothing, growing fangs from the dust, making the rules in a world that devours the weak, and finally crowning themselves kings.
Remember our names: Lin Chen, and his shadow, Chen Mo.
Welcome to our night.
