Three years ago, I, Chen Fan, crawled back from the jaws of death. The brothers at my side turned against me, and the empire I had built with my own hands fell apart. Disillusioned, I changed my name and went into hiding in the small city of Jiangcheng. By chance, I met Su Wanqing, who was in a bind: her grandfather was gravely ill, and her family was forcing her to take a live-in husband to bring him good fortune. I was out of options, and she was desperate to deal with her family. We struck a deal, and I became the Su family’s live-in son-in-law, the useless man everyone in Jiangcheng knows.
No one knows that I was once Lord Fan, a man whose every stomp could make the entire underworld of Jiangnan tremble. No one knows I once had over a thousand brothers under my command. No one knows that the name Chen Fan once made every petty crook who heard it go weak at the knees.
