Five years ago, Xiao Zhan, commander of a million iron cavalry in the northern frontier and known as "Dragon Fang," was forced to fake his death under secret orders. He assumed the name Lin Xiao and returned to his wife and daughter in Jiangcheng, limping and carrying just two thousand yuan in military discharge pay. He wanted to live an ordinary life and make up for the five years he had missed. But his wife, Su Qing, was worn out from struggling to make ends meet, and his daughter, Su Nian, was mocked by her classmates for having "a cripple for a dad." She wouldn't even let him attend her parent-teacher meetings. At a class reunion, he became the target of public humiliation by an old romantic rival. On the construction site, the foreman withheld his hard-earned wages. Everyone took him for a pathetic stray dog barely clinging to life, until one rainy night, his daughter was abducted by the underworld, and the police report came a full three hours too late. Lin Xiao slowly tore off the fake bandage he had kept wrapped around his leg for five years and dialed an encrypted number. "The Dragon Fang order is out. Give me three minutes, and I want every Jiangcheng sleeper cell back in position." In a single night, the underground empire that had controlled Jiangcheng for twenty years crumbled, and the city's powerful fell silent in fear. But when he held his trembling daughter amid the ruins, Su Nian sank her teeth into him
