Period: From Courtyard Troublemaker to the Top of the Capital

In the eyes of the compound’s privileged young men and the alleyway toughs, Lin Chuan is just a studious, honest man, a soft target anyone can push around. That is, until dozens of alleyway thugs surround the compound’s young men outside the Tianqiao Theater, with a bloody fight on the verge of breaking out. Half a brick smashes cleanly into the bridge of Wang Teng’s nose, the king of the northern city. One flying kick sends a fearless fighter from the State Planning Commission compound soaring three meters through the air. At a brawl on Yuetan Street, he even pulls out a revolver and presses it to the brow of a notorious bandit from Mentougou, scaring the man into wetting himself on the spot! The tough guys of all Beijing go crazy: What the hell do you mean, a frail scholar?! This is clearly an old-school badass who’ll turn on even his own family once he draws a blade! From that day on, the rules of Beijing’s underworld changed. And then there’s the unattainable “ice-cold moonlight” from the compound, the gentle, beautiful school belle...