From Frail Recruit to Borderland Blade

Lu Feng was sickly and frail from childhood, gasping after just a few steps. Everyone in the village said he wouldn’t live to grow up. The year he failed the college entrance exam, he refused to accept his fate. Armed with the breathing exercises and standing meditation taught to him by an old Taoist, and a stubborn refusal to bow his head, he boarded the train to enlist. From the weakest, least promising country boy in recruit training to enduring fitness drills, inspections, formations, and one punishing test after another, he forged himself into a true soldier through silence, discipline, and the bond between comrades.

Years later, Lu Feng assumed the name Lu Buyan and settled in an old building-materials market in Linjiang, running an unassuming security studio. He kept a low profile, looking after his disabled parents and secretly protecting the families left behind by fallen comrades. But when criminal forces pressured a martyr’s widow into signing a fake debt, then even swung a steel pipe at a child, he finally revealed the edge he had kept sheathed.

Calling the police, gathering evidence, holding back, rescuing people: Lu Buyan handled every step with restraint and precision. During a police investigation, however, they discovered that the service records of this ordinary security business owner were access-restricted. Behind the former name “Lu Feng” lay a bloody past as a special operations ace. Fallen comrades, leaked mission details, disabled parents, a traitor in the military... old cases and new enemies converged.

He had once promised his brothers that he would protect their loved ones. Now someone had crossed that line. The blade he had kept hidden for years was about to return to the battlefield.