He thought he could live like an ordinary person by avoiding his father's power.
The shoe prints in the mud in the rain, the sound of the wind on the red track, the dim lights of the billiard hall, the first scar made by the blade - and the girl's tears before she transferred to school all told him: This game is never something you can quit if you want.
In the autumn of 2002, Li Chen, the son of the director of the Municipal Construction Bureau, entered a key middle school. On the first day of school, the principal's special attention was like a brand, nailing him to the pillar of shame of being a "privileged student". The bullying from the class bully Zhang Hao, the deliberately overturned plates in the cafeteria, the "sycophant" graffiti on the blackboard, the bright red "traitor" spray paint on the car seat - the boy's dignity was crushed bit by bit in the mud.
When he resisted with his fists, the power of his father Li Jianguo was crushed like thunder: the bully's father was suspended from work, and the bully was forced to transfer to another school. Li Chen witnessed the hatred in Zhang Hao's blood-red eyes when he left school, and understood for the first time: the blessing of power can hurt people more than fists.
He became "Brother Li of the Third Middle School", stood at the top with fists and blood, and experienced the madness of casinos, the luxury of nightclubs, and the temptation of drugs. His sister-in-law Lin Wan's sister-like care is the only warmth in his chaotic world. However, his brother betrayed, his first love left, his best friend died tragically, and he was imprisoned... When the bad news came that Lin Wan was killed by his stepfather, the roar of the ambulance outside the morgue finally broke through his sinking dream——
