Dongcheng Pier is a gray area that swallows up the youth and dreams of countless people. The 15-year-old orphan Gou San was taken in by the underworld leader Jiu Ge here, and he embarked on a road of no return from the edge of the knife to lick blood. In seven years, he blocked seventeen knives for Brother Ninth, broke two ribs, and bent a finger, thinking that these were enough to earn him the word "one of his own."
Until his brother Lao Qi took the blame and was put into a sack and thrown into the Dongjiang River.
Only then did Gou San realize that he was just a pawn on Brother Jiu's chessboard. And those who really control everything behind the scenes are hidden in a deeper and darker place than Brother Jiu. A mysterious woman named Song Wan, who claimed to be Jiu Ge's woman, took the identity of Lao Qi's sister and the secret mission of a police undercover, and handed a gun and a ledger into Gou San's hands at the same time.
Rainy nights, docks, warehouses, villas - when Gou San put the muzzle of his gun between Brother Jiu's eyebrows, he realized that the person he was fighting against was never the same person. But a net. Every thread of this network is connected to the city's power center.
This is not the story of a gangster's counterattack. This is the story of a person who grew up in darkness and tried his best to get out into the sunshine. About loyalty and betrayal, about hatred and forgiveness, about how a person can wash his hands clean and live an ordinary life after being covered in mud.
Gou San's story begins at Dongcheng Pier, but it won't end there.
One thousand two hundred kilometers away, someone was waiting for him.
