Black Tide Embersoil

I will build a complete long-form serial structure based on the main line of young people at the bottom being forced to enter the underworld and guarding the bottom line of human nature. I will detail the opening chapter, character settings, power territory, and the plot outline of the subsequent hundred chapters. It will fit the realistic underworld style, abandon mindless and cool writing, and focus on the friendship between rivers and lakes, human struggle, and the game of black and white, ensuring that the series can be continuously updated. Black Tide Embersoil Basic settings of the novel (outline of the entire series) world view background The story is set in Binjiang City, Linjiang Province, in 2008, an old heavy industry city developed along the river. The city is divided into distinct parts: the shanty towns in the old city have cross-flowing sewage and mixed floating population, which is the breeding ground of gray areas; the new city is full of high-rise buildings, and capital and official forces are intertwined; the docks along the river, freight warehouses, night snack streets, and underground billiards halls are the main areas of activity for the underworld forces. In 2008, the crackdown on gangs had not yet become fully normalized. Binjiang underworld was in a period of balance among the three pillars. There was no absolute overlord. The bottom gangsters, middle-level gangsters, and top-level talkers divided their interests layer by layer. At the same time, they formed a secret chain of interests with gray businessmen and fringe public officials. The whole book follows a realistic underworld style, rejecting fantasy, mindless cheating, and indiscriminate killing of innocent people. The core theme is: there is no morality in the world, only pros and cons; when a person joins the underworld, the most difficult thing to keep is not his life, but his heart. Core character setting 1. Protagonist: Chen Jin He is 19 years old when he appears. He is an orphan in a shantytown in the old city. His parents were accidentally beaten to death by gangsters during a cargo dispute at the dock in his early years. He was raised by his elderly grandmother. He is tolerant, highly observant, thoughtful, naturally calm, and rarely emotional.