1993, a small county town.
My name is Chen Yu. I was just an honest, well-behaved student.
My father died young, my mother abandoned the family, and my grandmother and I depended on each other. All I wanted was to study hard.
Then some thugs smashed my grandmother’s little stall. One shove, and a life was gone.
I charged at them with a brick to avenge her. They saw how little I cared whether I lived or died, and the ruthless gang boss across the street took an interest in me.
He said, “Want revenge? Come with me.”
From then on, the scholar put down his books, and the boy entered the underworld.
From street-level lackey to neighborhood boss,
from local tough to a man no one in the city dared provoke,
then on to the whole province and an even wider underworld, where everyone feared and respected him.
The boy who once didn’t even dare get into a fight
would become the man everyone in the underworld bowed their heads to and respectfully called
Brother Yu.
This is a bloody road from the dust to the summit,
and one of the grittiest, most authentic gangster stories of the 1990s.
