A Pawn Crosses the River

Lin Guangze, a young man from Chaoshan, once served time in a detention center in someone else’s place. Now he scrapes by doing delivery gigs in Guangzhou. During a typhoon, he saves a girl named Cai Yiyi, who takes an instant liking to him and puts resources and money in his hands. If he accepts, he becomes a pawn on the board. If he refuses, he’ll never amount to anything.

But as he gradually moves forward, he discovers that an even greater beast lurks in the shadows, sharpening its knives as it prepares to tear her family apart and devour them. The moment the butcher’s knife is placed in his hands, he becomes the counterweight between two sides: should he betray a friend and sell out for greater profit, or stand firm against the pressure of capital on her family’s behalf?

Even more absurdly, Lin Guangze discovers that her family’s company is the very one that exceeded pollution limits years ago, leaving him to take the blame and serve time in a detention center!

Gratitude, love, and ambition, three forces twisting him onward. His benefactor may not trust him, his beloved could lose everything because of him at any moment, and his enemies are only waiting for him to make one wrong move.

A pawn advances. It will either be captured or promoted.