[Underworld Powerhouse] [Rise from the Bottom] [Female Confidantes] [Ruthless] [High-IQ Crimes] [Gangland Power Struggles] [Connections on Both Sides of the Law] [Careful Planning] [Political Scheming] [Scheming]
How many steps does it take to go from a victim of a honey trap, framed as an adulterer while helping someone catch their cheating spouse, to the architect of an underground empire ruling an entire city?
Ling Xiang's answer: risk your life!
After a honey-trap scam leaves him bankrupt, Ling Xiang falls from company owner to bottom-rung security guard.
On the edge of life and death, he realizes that the violence of Rongcheng's gangs is powerless before capital.
He recruits thirteen retired soldiers and builds a fearsome guard force at great expense. He hires top legal experts to overturn the fraudulent contracts and uses cold-chain logistics to create a money-laundering shield so airtight that even the authorities can't find a flaw.
The gangs threaten him with knives? The wall of shields formed by his veteran soldiers leaves them with nothing to show for it!
A state-owned enterprise director blocks his funding? One document is enough to have the discipline inspectors take the director away!
When two underworld factions draw guns and battle over an underground casino earning over a hundred million a year, they have no idea that the fuse was lit by a few fake figures Ling Xiang casually wrote down.
He may not be the best fighter, but he's the best at scheming.
Watch as a bankrupt small-business owner steps over the corpses of powerful men to claim the throne of the underworld!
