When Lin Xiaobai failed to apply for a job for the 57th time, he thought this was the lowest point in his life.
Until a rainy night delivery, he accidentally entered a secret transaction in an old teahouse, and a blood-stained USB flash drive fell into his takeout box.
The USB flash drive contains evidence that can subvert the entire city: child trafficking, the black money network of transnational capital, and the umbrella list within the police.
What shocked him even more was that the key to decrypting the USB flash drive was the DNA of his deceased father, Lin Jianguo.
"Your father is not a construction worker," the mysterious woman Su Qingying told him, "he is one of the seventh generation 'guardians' of the Su family." Twenty years ago, the Su family was wiped out for guarding the "bottom line of the world." Twenty years later, the tentacles of Dark River Capital have penetrated the entire city.
Delivery workers, corporate elites, martyrdom, rebellious hackers, and iron-faced policewomen—five people who should not have crossed paths were forced to join forces.
They want to use modern business thinking to deconstruct traditional gangs, use algorithms to fight violence, use public opinion to tear apart the protective umbrella, and rebuild untouchable bottom lines in gray areas.
But Anhe's counterattack was faster than expected. Professional killers, financial sniping, public slander, internal betrayal...
When his father's dusty "Guardian" ring lit up again, Lin Xiaobai understood:
Some wars started twenty years ago.
The price for keeping upright and breaking the dark may be everything they have.
