Mo Zai is a third-year student studying anti-narcotics at Yunan Police Academy in Yunnan Province. After the campus beauty from the neighboring Yunan Dance Academy is brutally raped and murdered, Mo Zai is interrogated as a suspect, sentenced to death, and executed immediately. He is put to death by euthanasia. He believes that with his death, he is doomed to fall into the depths of hell, never to escape. But when he wakes, he finds himself in Baishi Village, in Myanmar's Shan State, at the Golden Triangle. What is going on? Was he rescued in repayment for a debt of gratitude by the people of Baishi Village? Or was it deliberately arranged by the mainland Chinese police? ... In this shadowy land of the Golden Triangle, where demons and monsters lurk, the forces of drug lords are deeply entrenched and tangled. The local powers, including the government army, are rife with deceit. How will Mo Zai survive and test his mettle against these vicious drug kingpins and the region's motley array of forces, in a clash of fire and ice shaped by fate? ...