[Period Jianghu] [Brotherhood] [An Ordinary Man's Rise] [No System]
"So what if we beat you? In this village, the Zhao family can beat whoever they want!"
When Duan Changxing was seven, he watched his father get pinned down and beaten in a manure pile. The only reason was that someone had stolen the family's egg-laying hen, and his father had gone to demand an explanation.
At twenty-eight, Duan Changxing saw the Zhao family beating his younger brother again, with one of them sitting on top of him.
This time, he grabbed a brick.
The moment it came down, old and new grievances came knocking all at once.
Dozens of members of the Zhao family surrounded the courtyard, demanding that he kneel and pay up. Duan Changxing stood at the gate with a broad axe in hand, with only his younger brother, gripping a shovel, at his side.
"Back then, my father bowed his head. Did you leave my family alone?"
From the village entrance to the streets, Duan Changxing went from a poor kid nobody took seriously to a man who made the big shots from every corner sweat.
He had no backing and little capital, yet he refused to live by rules set by others.
