Wild Blade

[Modern underworld] + [Rise from the bottom] + [First-person narration] + [Ensemble cast] + [Brotherhood] + [Alternate timeline]

As a boy, Wu Ye was an ant trampled into the mud. Unwilling to suffer the humiliation any longer, he took one knife and thirteen men and carved open the skies over Four Counties.

From a bullied victim to the “Wild Blade” who commanded the three high schools;

from settling scores on campus to bloody battles in the streets.

He reached the top, only to be betrayed by his brothers and misunderstood by the girl he loved, before finally plunging to rock bottom.

He once retired, but brotherhood drew him back into the underworld, where he swept across Pingyuan Province.

When the noise had faded, the thirteen former sworn brothers had become business magnates, while Wu Ye returned to that little county town and opened a quiet coffee shop.

Someone asked him, “Boss Wu, what does it mean to live by the rules of the underworld?”

Wu Ye wiped a glass and smiled. “The underworld? It's a band of brothers who've risked their lives for one another, a bowl of liquor you can never finish, and a youth you can never go back to...”