Millennium, Sansha City.
Pan Haoran, who was born as an orphan, walked out of prison. He took the blame for five years, in exchange for a younger brother who finished college and a younger sister who became a doctor. He didn't feel any loss.
The pig butcher back then is now called "Fat Man". He had two dead brothers - Gou Xun was in charge of brains, and Ji Feng was in charge of knives. He wants to take the right path, but every piece of land in Sansha City has the same rule written on it: people at the bottom have no right to choose.
From the first knife in the vegetable market to the largest evil empire in Sansha City, it took Fatty twenty years. He thought he was playing a game and had transformed from a chess piece into a chess player.
But he didn't know that Zhang Yi, the young policeman who helped him back then, spent the same twenty years waiting for the day when the net would be closed.
When his younger brother fell to his death, when his younger sister left for a foreign country, when the woman he loved most died in his arms, when everything he had built with his own hands fell apart - Fatty discovered that no one could ever win this game.
In 2022, Pan Haoran walked out of the prison door. At the end of Pier New Road, the paulownia flowers are in full bloom.
Zhang Yi stood under the tree, flanked by two young men. Doudou was wearing work clothes, half a fist taller than Zhang Yi, and his lips were pursed, exactly like his father when he was young. Gao Yan's son was holding a folder, which contained the terminal's operating reports over the years.
Pan Haoran looked at them, without walking over, but just nodded.
Zhang Yi leaned against the tree trunk, with white hair on his head, holding Lao Huang's burnt match stem in his hand. He watched the scene from a distance and did not step forward.
The bottom game, no one can escape. The next generation has its own path.
