Chen Mo was a top lawyer in 2026. When he woke up, he had become the young heir to the Yi'an Hall, a gang in Haicheng in 2006.
His father had just died, their territory had been carved up, and all he had left were six loyal old men, the weak and the infirm.
Worse still, he knew that in three years, a crackdown on organized crime would sweep through the city. Every one of them would end up facing a firing squad.
To stay alive, Chen Mo made a decision that went against everything his ancestors stood for: he registered the whole crew as a company, paid taxes, got them certified as social workers, opened a fast-food chain, started a same-city delivery service, and even sold their machetes to buy security uniforms.
When their rivals came to wreck the place, he called the police.
When they tried to smear them in the press, he held a press conference.
Outsiders thought he'd gone soft. Only his brothers knew that Brother Mo was using the Company Law and the Criminal Law to draft lawsuits against his opponents one by one.
Ten years later, the biggest company in Haicheng is Yi'an Living.
Locals still say the sky is black, but what they really mean is: these people are everywhere, and you can't find a single thing wrong with them.
