In the summer of 1985, 19-year-old Shen Xiao hadn't finished his bowl of boiled noodles when Fa Xiao ran up to him and told him that local gangsters wanted to take over the vegetable market and destroyed the old neighbor's fruit stall.
Shen Xiao, a wild child who grew up in a shanty town in the south of the city. He lost his father at the age of eight and his mother at the age of sixteen, and lived alone in the world for three years. He has no backer, no background, and no money in his pocket, but he has a pair of eyes that see through the world and a heart that has never died before.
He went to the teahouse to talk to Masandao but did not take action. Masandao spared the vegetable market, but dragged him into the water - the smuggled grain on the dock, the hidden piles in the warehouse, and the undercurrent surging under this coastal city in the 1980s, gradually sucked Shen Xiao into it.
This is not a story about fighting and killing. It tells the story of how a man who no longer wanted to be stepped on by others used his fists, brains, and brothers' lives to fight his way out of a wild dog in a shanty town in that chaotic and prosperous era.
In this world, someone has to stand up.
