[No System] [Feel-Good Story] [Urban] [Small County Town] [Social Intrigue]
After spending several years making his way in the world, Chen Yi returned to his county town.
He had planned to lie low for a few days, but on his very first night back, the campus belle knocked on his door.
She hadn't come to reminisce.
She had come to beg him to save her life.
The Lin family's transport routes had been cut off, its warehouses sealed, its fleet brought to a standstill, and the banks were demanding repayment. Its partners had turned against it, and even the people who used to raise their glasses around the table were now eager to keep their distance.
Everyone knew the Lin family was on the verge of collapse.
But no one expected Chen Yi to be the first to step in.
One phone call, and he had the seals removed on the spot.
One word put out on the street, and he set the entire secondhand market in motion.
He stepped into a world of gray areas, personal connections, old scores, and tight-knit local networks. The schemes originally aimed at the Lin family gradually turned their sights on him instead.
Because the old hands in town were beginning to recognize it:
That style was just like the old Chen family.
From that day on, people came at him one after another: investigating him, testing him, pressuring him, and trying to use Lin Wan to get to him.
The secondhand market, the warehouse docks, the transport fleet, the port, the businessmen's private gatherings, the city's investors, the old scores of the previous generation...
Everyone thought Chen Yi was helping the Lin family turn things around.
Only Chen Yi knew the truth:
He hadn't come back to help.
He'd come back to collect, with interest, on the score they'd never settled.
A campus belle knocking on his door in the dead of night,
a transport network on the verge of being devoured,
a small county town that seemed peaceful on the surface but hid knives, guns, and cannons beneath it all.
Everything is fine, but my brain is not good and I don't understand.