Seventeen-year-old Qi'an made her first stab in Menglun, a border town in Yunnan, to save her terminally ill mother. Starting from grabbing 80,000 life-saving money from the vegetable market, he embarked on a bloody road from which he could not turn back.
Smuggling, conflagration, betrayal, rise. From a desperado on the Nanla River to "Brother Qi" who attracted the attention of both black and white, he used his loyalty to gather his brothers and expanded his territory with ruthlessness. In the gray area of Menglun, he established his own underground rules: do not use drugs, do not bully the weak, and do not betray brothers.
However, the road to rivers and lakes is never left to others. The former life-saving brother turned against him, and the policewoman who sympathized with him had a different attitude towards him. Drug lords from the Golden Triangle and the armed forces from northern Myanmar turned this town into a wrestling field. Every choice he made pushed him deeper into the vortex.
This is a story about survival and destruction. In the fog that fills the Lancang River, under the repeated torn between interests and human nature, can Qi'an hold on to the final bottom line? When the tide of the times sweeps across, where will this road forged with blood lead?
The border has been turbulent for twenty years. Let's see how a generation of heroes writes their own destiny in this lawless land.
