Urban + Underdog Comeback + Dark + Witty and Humorous + Decisive and Ruthless + Historical Era, Country, and Family Themes. Based on real-life subject matter, but please don’t associate it with reality. We beg you to go easy on us!!! (Three chapters updated daily at 7:00 a.m.)
Gao Qiang accidentally saw something he shouldn’t have, and now the gang is after him. Just how unlucky can a guy get? To make matters worse, the beautiful proprietress Shen Ruo keeps looking down on him. She says he looks like a thug and tells her niece, Shen Xilin, to stay away from someone like Gao Qiang. Gao Qiang is fuming inside. By “horses galloping,” he really means “damn it all.” When your luck runs out, even a drink of cold water gets stuck in your teeth. He thinks, I’d never fall for your niece. I wouldn’t fall for that girl at all. So what if she’s pretty...
Back in his hometown, he was drinking with friends when some thugs came looking for trouble. His friend accidentally killed someone, and his wife immediately divorced him, leaving him with one cutting remark: “You can’t make anything of a good-for-nothing.” Gao Qiang was left with nothing. To avoid further trouble, he went to Quancheng on the coast. He had no skills or connections, and ran into setbacks everywhere. Nothing went right; it seemed his life had no hope...
But he couldn’t give up, and he had nowhere else to go. So he changed his approach. He knew martial arts, had a sharp mind, and could talk his way through anything. Why not put those to use? If he couldn’t be a good person, anyone could be a bad one...
Unexpectedly, the beautiful proprietress began to see him in a new light, saying he had what it took to shoulder responsibility. Watch Gao Qiang turn his life around and rise from the bottom...