King of the Reverse Scales

Name: King of the Reverse Scales
Author: Top Sword of Nanling

逆鳞之王

by Top Sword of Nanling (南陵剑首)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 107k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 8mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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My name is Wang Kaixuan, and I'm sixteen years old. If fate were a card table, I'd have been dealt the rotten hand nobody else wanted.

My father broke his spine falling at a construction site and has been bedridden for three years. His medical bills drained our family's last bit of savings. My mother works the sewing machines at the town garment factory by day and strings beads for people at night. What she earns in a month isn't even enough to cover my father's painkillers for a week. I get up at four every morning to feed the chickens, cook, and help my father turn over and wash up, then walk five li along the mountain road to school in town.

And that's not even the worst of it.

The landlord in our village, a man surnamed Zhao, looks at our family like we're a piece of meat he's bound to devour sooner or later. His son, Zhao Dahu, is my classmate and the bully who corners me in the restroom every day to “borrow money.” His father, Zhao Youcai, is even worse. He's had his eye on our two mu of land by the river for a long time, always looking for ways to force us to sell.

After school today, Zhao Dahu and his gang blocked my way again. But this time was different. In his schoolbag, I saw something I should never have seen: a secretly taken photo of my mother bent over at work in the garment factory. The angle was lewd, and the disgusting words scrawled on the back made my stomach turn.

I knew I couldn't keep putting up with this.

Even if I was a poor country kid without a single intact pair of sneakers, even if I was so skinny the wind could blow me over, even if everyone said, “Just accept your fate, Wang's boy,” I refused.

I'll make them see that even the humblest blade of grass has the strength to pierce stone.

This is my story: the story of a boy who used his flesh and blood to fight the whole world.

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