I Level Up in Gotham, Then Return to Southeast Asia to Crush the Competition

A boy whom life has robbed time and again eventually learns how to rob the world. At seventeen, Zhou Yi's life is the lingering smell of sweat in a rundown apartment complex, cheap floral water, and the ceaseless sound of his landlady, Sister Chen, showering next door. Every shred of dignity he has is beaten and spat away by Sister Chen's ex-husband, crumbling to the floor along with the peeling paint. He thinks poverty is his original sin, until fate casts him into the cold stench of corpses and neon lights in Philadelphia, America. Here, he learns the real rules: people have price tags, and death is a business. He strips away his emotions and becomes a top-tier "cleaner," believing that if he saves enough money, he can buy back that damp summer and the people who were part of it. But one call from across the ocean shatters everything: Sister Chen has been sold to Southeast Asia, a lawless land. This time, he has no money, only the skills he learned in hell. He takes off his protective suit, puts on a white suit, and steps into the mud and bloodshed of the Golden Triangle. Facing warlords with guns, he wields an even deadlier weapon: a set of dark rules they cannot understand. He has to save one person. To do that, he must give all of hell a new master. This is a story about how loss can turn someone into something else, and how obsession can forge a devil. When the boy's innocent eyes finally turn to ice, what is he really stealing: redemption, or an abyss of eternal damnation?