After retiring from the special forces, Xu Huaxing returned home to help his parents run their breakfast shop. When thugs smashed up the shop and extorted them while his parents swallowed their anger, he could take no more. In a single night, he wiped out the criminal gangs controlling the entire street. From pool halls to casinos, from street punks to gang leaders, the Huaxing Society was born amid the clash of blades. A small-time breakfast shop owner led his fellow underdogs in bloody battles and takeovers, fighting his way from the eastern part of the city to the entire country.
On the night the Axe Gang fell, he rescued Shen Qingci, the most powerful young heiress in Beijing's elite circles. Cool, proud, and connected enough to move mountains, she revealed her most vulnerable side to him. Her life debt bound them tightly together: she used her connections in Beijing's elite circles to smooth over his troubles with the authorities, while he used his fists to clear away obstacles in her family's power struggle. Attraction blossomed on the edge of a blade, and desire simmered in the pauses between battles.
From gang wars at home to clashes with foreign powers, every stone Xu Huaxing overturned concealed an even bigger monster. The higher he climbed, the clearer it became that the ultimate power behind the underworld was far greater and more unfathomable than anyone could imagine.
Hard fists, harder bones. Blood on the blade, tenderness at his side. Before the dawn, some choose to become the darkness itself.
The Huaxing Society was founded, and the realm came to bear the Xu name.
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