Lu Zheng, former leader of a special operations team, retired and went into hiding under an assumed name in a border town, working as an ordinary truck driver. One night, local crime boss Zhao Sanjin tried to seize a shipment of contraband and sent men to intercept Lu Zheng’s truck. Mistakenly, they took Lu Zheng’s fallen comrade’s orphan, a fifteen-year-old boy named Xiao Shitou, hostage, then brutally killed him during the ensuing conflict. Lu Zheng was framed and sent to prison, where he endured relentless abuse. Three years later, after his release, Lu Zheng discovered that the forces who had framed him had grown into a behemoth spanning both the criminal underworld and legitimate society. He stopped running. Using his former special operations skills and the help of Old K, an information broker he had met in prison, he took on the powerful by starting small and dismantled the enemy’s organization piece by piece.
