Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yan Hai beat Tao Da Niu while ignoring a gun pointed at his back, then shot Tao Da Niu’s subordinate when the man failed to lower it. He left Tao Da Niu alive and demanded that Tao Da Niu provide sixty percent of the drugs needed for his superiors’ operation.

• Jiang Yan Hai ordered He Lu and the others to lower their guns, then beat Tao Da Niu as Tao Da Niu’s subordinate aimed a pistol at him.
• Jiang Yan Hai challenged the gunman to shoot, but the terrified man did not fire, and Tao Da Niu took the pistol from him.
• Jiang Yan Hai shot Tao Da Niu’s subordinate in the head and tossed the pistol to Tao Da Niu.
• Jiang Yan Hai seated Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei, then demanded that they supply one ton of drugs, with Tao Da Niu providing sixty percent.
• Tao Da Niu protested the amount, but Jiang Yan Hai said there was no negotiation, and Tao Da Niu agreed.

Jiang Yan Hai pressured Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei into joining him, demanding a share of their profits and complete intelligence on their operations. After they agreed, he introduced Qiang Zi, a Provincial Department special action team leader, and told the traffickers to bring a camera when summoned.

• Jiang Yan Hai demanded twenty percent of the profits and all of Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei’s trafficking routes, personnel, and records, threatening them if they betrayed him or were caught.
• Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu weighed their limited options and agreed to Jiang Yan Hai’s terms.
• Jiang Yan Hai, Ma Yun Fei, and Tao Da Niu sealed their partnership with a handshake.
• Jiang Yan Hai had Old Cannon summon Qiang Zi, then introduced him as the leader of the Provincial Department Black Hawk Special Action Team.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he would let Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei gain leverage over him too, and ordered them to bring a camera when he called for them.

Jiang Yan Hai let Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu leave after negotiating their cooperation, then explained his execution of one of Tao Da Niu’s men and sent the women to buy expensive clothes for their cover. He went to a residential complex sales office to buy a house, where an unfamiliar caller reached him.

• Jiang Yan Hai sent Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu away with his vehicles and arranged for someone to handle the body and the scene.
• Jiang Yan Hai told He Lu that he had killed Tao Da Niu’s man to intimidate the gang, and Wu Laoqi explained why their mission sometimes demanded such actions.
• Jiang Yan Hai gave He Lu, Qu Bi'a Zhuo, and the other woman credit cards and told them to buy costly clothes, while picking up outfits for the other two women as well.
• Jiang Yan Hai dropped off the three women, then had Old Cannon drive him and the others to a residential complex to buy a house.
• Jiang Yan Hai received a call from an unfamiliar number as the van parked outside the sales office.

Jiang Yan Hai received an offer from one of Tian Ming’s men to help free the imprisoned crime boss, then met real estate developer Lin Wan Sen while shopping for apartments. He agreed to buy two units at the advertised five-percent discount, leaving Lin to choose them.

• A man claiming to work for Tian Ming asked Jiang Yan Hai to get the imprisoned boss released, and Jiang demanded at least a hundred million before hanging up.
• Wu Laoqi asked about the hundred million, and Jiang said the call might bring an unexpected gain.
• Lin Wan Sen greeted Jiang as Mr. Bai and explained that he owned the company that developed the property.
• Jiang told Lin he wanted to buy two full-floor apartments and asked him to arrange the paperwork quickly.
• Lin offered Jiang a fifty-percent discount, but Jiang insisted on the advertised five-percent discount and agreed to let Lin choose the apartments.

Jiang Yan Hai bought the top two floors of Building 8 with Lin Wan Sen’s help and turned the apartments into a base for his team. After checking both floors for surveillance devices, he set up five laptops, leaving the group ready to use them.

• Lin Wan Sen arranged for the top two apartments of Building 8 to be registered under Mr. Bai’s name, and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to treat him to dinner the next evening.
• Jiang Yan Hai and his companions toured the apartments, and he explained to Wu Laoqi that the units could be worth nearly ten million more than he paid.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Wu Laoqi to choose a bedroom and said the apartments would serve as their base.
• Jiang Yan Hai scanned both apartments and found every hidden listening device and camera.
• Old Cannon returned with five laptops, and Jiang Yan Hai connected them and turned on their cameras.

Jiang Yan Hai briefed the joint command center on his plan to use Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu to expose a large drug-trafficking network and coordinate a multi-province sweep. The chiefs agreed to investigate his additional leads and prepare the departments for the operation.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Old Wen and the other chiefs that he had obtained a ton of mixed product from Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu, reducing the supply available to traffickers.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that he had promised Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu a share of the market in exchange for their trafficking routes, contacts, accounts, and transaction records, while arranging to sweep up the other ringleaders.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported that someone connected to Tian Ming in prison had asked him to get Tian Ming released, and he suggested investigating real estate businessman Lin Wan Sen.
• Jiang Yan Hai said he would meet Lin Wan Sen for dinner and expected the growing commotion to prompt Tang Ming to contact him.
• Old Wen and the other chiefs agreed to investigate Lin Wan Sen and coordinate public security and Armed Police departments across several provinces for the operation.

Jiang Yan Hai arranged for Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu to secretly film Director Qiao visiting a villa, then showed them the cash hidden there and explained how the evidence could keep them mutually restrained. He left them responsible for contacting the drug lords and preparing for what came next.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Director Qiao to visit the warehouse and put on a convincing show with a briefcase.
• Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu filmed Director Qiao arriving at and leaving the villa with his briefcase.
• Jiang Yan Hai explained that the recording gave Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu leverage to protect one another if he fell.
• Jiang Yan Hai showed Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu the cash hidden in the villa’s refrigerator and upstairs.
• Jiang Yan Hai warned Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu that they would go down with him and told them to contact the drug lords as soon as possible.

Jiang Yan Hai learned from Tao Da Niu that Tian Ming controlled a network tied to major antique thefts and that a missing overseas shipment was worth billions. He reported the lead to Old Wen, then waited at a warehouse for an unknown group to arrive.

• Jiang Yan Hai asked Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei about Tian Ming's offer of antiques, and Tao Da Niu revealed the network and the missing shipment of cultural relics.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Tao Da Niu he could use the antiques to help his superior advance, then dismissed Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei.
• Jiang Yan Hai called Old Wen with the information, and Old Wen arranged for the relevant departments to investigate.
• Jiang Yan Hai drove to the warehouse, checked in with He Lu, and kept monitoring Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei.
• Wu Laoqi announced the arrivals, and Jiang Yan Hai watched four men enter before recognizing their leader as someone absent from the files.

Jiang Yan Hai met Hu Jian Guo, who brought antiques and asked him for help assessing them. Jiang Yan Hai’s scanning system analyzed the first porcelain bottle, but Hu Jian Guo had not yet explained what help he wanted.

• Jiang Yan Hai secretly searched the provincial department’s database using his authorized account.
• Hu Jian Guo introduced himself and asked to discuss business privately, but Jiang Yan Hai insisted his companions stay and nearly left when Hu Jian Guo hesitated.
• Hu Jian Guo persuaded Jiang Yan Hai to stay and had his men unload a wooden crate and several carefully wrapped objects.
• Jiang Yan Hai scanned a greenish porcelain bottle, and his system estimated that it was most likely made during the Western Han dynasty.
• Hu Jian Guo claimed the bottle might be Eastern Han celadon, and Jiang Yan Hai crouched to examine it without touching it.

Jiang Yan Hai negotiated with Hu Jian Guo over a shipment of valuable antiques, insisting that Hu Jian Guo spread word of his help while taking the goods away for now. After Hu Jian Guo left, Jiang Yan Hai explained that he had suspected the shipment included fakes, especially the bronze vessel, and had let Hu Jian Guo keep the items to avoid being trapped by the scheme.

• Jiang Yan Hai inspected the antiques and recognized that the bronze tripod had been artificially aged and was likely made five years earlier.
• Jiang Yan Hai agreed to help Hu Jian Guo move the antiques and get Boss Tian's sentence reduced, on the condition that Hu Jian Guo spread word about his assistance.
• Jiang Yan Hai refused to take any of the goods, and Hu Jian Guo had his men load everything back onto their vehicles and leave.
• He Lu questioned why Jiang Yan Hai had let the supposed national treasures go, and Jiang Yan Hai explained that the shipment likely contained fakes and that he could not safely have the items appraised or exported.
• Jiang Yan Hai told He Lu, Old Cannon, and Qu Bi'a Zhuo that the bronze vessel was fake and described how Hu Jian Guo had counted on him trusting the genuine smaller items.

Jiang Yan Hai coordinated with the authorities to investigate Hu Jian Guo and use Tian Ming’s release to uncover the locations of two batches of cultural relics. After Tian Ming was released on medical parole, Jiang Yan Hai prepared an armed exercise for his expected visit.

• Jiang Yan Hai told Shen Lan Ni and Qu Bi'a Zhuo that he wanted the publicity and would prevent the national treasures from leaving the country.
• Jiang Yan Hai reported his encounter with Hu Jian Guo to Director Wen and asked the authorities to release Tian Ming and another low-level offender publicly in his name.
• Jiang Yan Hai argued that Hu Jian Guo had not undergone plastic surgery and might have no household registration, perhaps because his guardian had also been unregistered.
• Director Qiao ordered a major provincial mobilization to investigate the cases Jiang Yan Hai had uncovered.
• About a week later, the authorities released Tian Ming on medical parole and restricted him from leaving the country.
• Jiang Yan Hai prepared an armed exercise at the usual meeting place for Tian Ming’s expected visit, while He Lu and the others watched, unsure of his plan.

Jiang Yan Hai set a trap for Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo after discovering they had replaced many of the antiques with fakes. He left them terrified after revealing two brutally mutilated corpses disguised as their missing men.

• Tian Ming arrived with Hu Jian Guo and six others to trade antiques with Jiang Yan Hai.
• Jiang Yan Hai recognized that half the antiques Hu Jian Guo brought were forgeries and confirmed that Hu Jian Guo had spread the underworld news he had requested.
• Jiang Yan Hai summoned Old Cannon and the others, who surrounded and restrained Tian Ming's group at gunpoint.
• Jiang Yan Hai had the captives taken inside the plastic enclosure and confronted Hu Jian Guo over cheating him twice.
• Old Cannon and Wu Laoqi uncovered two mutilated corpses, frightening Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo into collapsing and pleading.

Jiang Yan Hai coerced Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo into revealing stolen antiques and their criminal histories, then had their claims verified. He spared their lives but turned them over to the police, leaving them to face arrest and prosecution.

• Jiang Yan Hai frightened Tian Ming into revealing that a large cache of national treasures was hidden on an uninhabited island in the Zhoushan Archipelago.
• Jiang Yan Hai guessed that Hu Jian Guo had no household registration and had been raised by a tomb robber, then forced him to confess his crimes and stolen treasures.
• Jiang Yan Hai ordered Old Cannon and the others to hold the men while his people checked their claims.
• After four days, police from seven provinces verified the locations and recovered a shocking number of stolen antiques.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo that he would spare their lives but have them arrested, and they agreed without protest.

Jiang Yan Hai turned the arrests of Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo into a boost for his reputation while recovering national treasures and solving major cases. He then prepared a large joint operation to capture the province’s drug lord leaders near Yuanshan Town, leaving Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu to keep a low profile.

• Tian Ming and Hu Jian Guo confessed to their crimes but refused to reveal anything about Third Master Bai, and Jiang Yan Hai publicized their return to prison as proof that he had kept his word.
• The underworld praised Jiang Yan Hai and Third Master Bai, while the police recovered valuable cultural relics and closed numerous cold cases.
• Jiang Yan Hai recorded the crimes of people seeking his help and focused on capturing the province’s dozen or so drug lord leaders.
• Jiang Yan Hai assembled four special operations teams and police and Armed Police units for a series of raids, including Red Cell and Fire Phoenix’s first real combat mission.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu to take over and keep a low profile while the operation proceeded near Yuanshan Town.

Jiang Yan Hai reassured Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu that the joint police operation would wipe out the armed bosses they had lured in, while warning them to keep their promises and avoid getting caught. He prepared to withdraw, leaving the drug lords unaware that Third Master Bai was directing the operation from among them.

• Ma Yun Fei explained that he had invited the fifteen bosses by offering an apology and the prospect of regaining distribution rights, then warned Jiang Yan Hai that they had brought at least a hundred armed men.
• Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei called themselves family with Jiang Yan Hai and praised their role in misleading the police and Special Forces, while He Lu privately recognized that Third Master Bai controlled the plan.
• Jiang Yan Hai assured the men that the joint operation would leave none of their targets able to escape and warned that anyone who broke their word would face consequences.
• Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu pledged loyalty, and Jiang Yan Hai described a cruel method of keeping informants alive in agony, frightening both men.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Ma Yun Fei and Tao Da Niu to prepare to withdraw before the targets were wiped out and warned them not to blame him if their own carelessness led to capture.

Jiang Yan Hai confirmed that the Ma Family was under control and reported intelligence that triggered Operation Sky Net’s final assault. As four special operations teams began their attack, He Chen Guang opened fire on an enemy more than seven hundred meters away.

• Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei acknowledged that Jiang Yan Hai had put them in a secure position, then warned each other not to jeopardize their cooperation.
• Jiang Yan Hai discovered that someone was monitoring the operation and suspected Tao Da Niu’s subordinate was a Chu Family mole.
• Jiang Yan Hai relayed his intelligence, and the command post near Yuanshan Town ordered Operation Sky Net to begin its net-closing phase.
• Chen Shan Ming briefed the ambush teams, warned them to coordinate despite their rivalry, and announced that the general assault would begin in one minute.
• The Lone Wolf, Red Cell, Fire Phoenix, and Thunderbolt Commando Unit teams acknowledged the order and launched the assault.
• He Chen Guang shot an enemy with his Type 88 sniper rifle from more than seven hundred meters away, then aimed at his next target.

Four special forces teams stormed the enemy compound, using drone intelligence and coordinated fire to eliminate the defenders and capture the bosses. Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei escaped and watched the swift victory, while Jiang Yan Hai spoke to someone on the phone.

• The special forces teams advanced under sniper cover as Xu Tian Long and Song Kai Fei shot enemies and a distant sniper killed a Rocket Launcher wielder.
• Xianglong drones relayed enemy positions to headquarters, whose operators warned Miao Lang about a hidden attacker he then shot.
• The four teams entered the villa area, threw Flashbang Grenades into rooms, and ordered the occupants to surrender.
• The bosses and other occupants dropped their weapons and knelt as the assault teams took control and called for support.
• Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei marveled at how quickly the operation ended, while Jiang Yan Hai continued a phone call.

Jiang Yan Hai, posing as Third Master Bai, spoke with Chu Tian Nan, who sought an alliance with him against the Wu Family. Jiang Yan Hai refused to handle business he considered too dangerous, and afterward he thought about undercover agents around Chu Tian Nan and the risks they faced.

• Chu Tian Nan called Jiang Yan Hai and proposed working together with the remnants of the Ma Family.
• Jiang Yan Hai said the Ma Family remnants were easier to control and explained that he would not take on business that could prevent him from getting out safely.
• Jiang Yan Hai revealed that he knew Chu Tian Nan had planted an informant beside Tao Da Niu, unsettling Chu Tian Nan.
• Chu Tian Nan offered a price thirty percent lower than the one he had offered Tao Da Niu, but Jiang Yan Hai refused to cross his limits.
• Chu Tian Nan and Jiang Yan Hai agreed to remain friends and exchanged the possibility of working together in the future.
• After the call, Jiang Yan Hai considered the undercover agents around Chu Tian Nan, while He Lu asked why he had disclosed his plans.

Jiang Yan Hai explained his strategy for gaining Chu Tian Nan’s trust while coordinating with the command center on a joint investigation into the Chu Family. The chapter left Ma Yun Fei and other criminals awaiting a later operation to arrest them all at once.

• Jiang Yan Hai told He Lu that he had to make Chu Tian Nan trust him before they could bring down the overseas Wu Chu Families.
• Chu Tian Nan called Bai San ruthless and decided to focus on cooperation with Tao Da Niu while tightening plans as border defenses increased.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked Old Wen whether the Chu Family was under investigation and learned that undercover officer Lu Yun Fei was still alive.
• Jiang Yan Hai urged the command center to help withdraw Lu Yun Fei safely and coordinate intelligence with the neighboring province.
• Jiang Yan Hai told Old Wen to ease pressure on Ma Yun Fei for now, and Old Wen said the criminals would be arrested in a later sweep.

Jiang Yan Hai warned Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei to keep drugs out of the country while they consolidated control of the former criminal bosses’ territories. Tang Ming arranged a dinner meeting with a person General Staff wanted to identify, and Jiang Yan Hai asked whether Li Ruo Bai would be at the restaurant.

• Jiang Yan Hai called Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei and warned them not to bring drugs into the country.
• Tao Da Niu and Ma Yun Fei said the border crackdown made smuggling impossible and that their expanded territories were earning well through other businesses.
• Tang Ming contacted Jiang Yan Hai and arranged to introduce him to someone sought by General Staff.
• Jiang Yan Hai informed the command center about the meeting and agreed to send back the person’s photo and information.
• Jiang Yan Hai asked General Staff to check whether Li Ruo Bai would be at Hongya Pavilion, and they agreed to track her phone.