1. I opened my eyes, a damp, musty smell filling my nostrils. This was a rented room of less than ten square meters in the old district of Xinhang City, the walls yellowed, the window overlooking a perpetually dark alleyway. The pain of being tormented by illness in my past life was fading, and memories flooded back. I had become a minor character in the comic "Black Street," whose name had only appeared three times. Zhou Mo, 24 years old, a low-level information broker in the underworld. The story takes place in the fictional crime-ridden city of Xinhang City. The protagonist, Chen Feng, was originally an undercover police officer, abandoned by the police force after a failed mission. To survive, he mingled in the underworld, gradually becoming a leader of a local power.
