The World-Stealing Villain

High above the prosperous Great Zhou Dynasty, an Ilyushin Il-76 streaked across the clouds, leaving a long trail behind it. Inside its spacious fuselage, four special forces soldiers sat uneasily. They were about to parachute into a place that was no modern battlefield torn by war, but an age of night markets lit by a thousand lamps beneath emerald clouds, where guests in high-rise towers mingled with beauties in red sleeves.