[Period Drama] [Northwestern Underworld] [Hard-Hitting Realism] [Rise of an Outlaw]
"The underworld isn't all about fighting and killing. It's about human connections and social finesse? Wrong. Only those still standing after all the fighting and killing have the right to talk about human connections and social finesse."
In the late 1980s, the vast northwest was buried beneath endless yellow sand.
The streets of Yizhou, a small city on the northwestern frontier, teemed with the raw energy of outlaws making their way in the world.
After leaving the battlefield at Liangshan, Qin Lie returned to his hometown to make a living on his own.
To survive in this small city at the foot of the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, he was forced into the torrent of the times.
From keeping order at video halls to monopolizing border trade, Qin Lie witnessed the northwestern underworld rise to its golden age and then decline as the sun set. Countless hard men fell in pools of blood, becoming the final echoes of their era.
Now, Qin Lie has somehow made it out in one piece, dressed in a fine suit. Lighting a cigarette, he slowly recounts the years buried beneath the yellow sand: "If you can help it, don't ever take the path of the underworld..."
