Chapter Summaries

Su Tianyu arrived in Dragon City and learned that his second uncle had been framed and jailed amid a fight over the Su family's sanitation work zones. When Changqing Company moved to seize the family's storage yard, Su Tianbei led the family to defend it.

• Su Tianyu reunited with Su Tianbei at the station and learned that trouble had struck their family.
• Su Tianbei explained that Changqing Company had framed Su Tianyu's second uncle with a military-equipment smuggling charge and was trying to take the family's work zones.
• Su Tianyu returned with Su Tianbei to the family compound, where relatives welcomed him.
• A young family member reported that Changqing Company had sent people to take over the storage yard.
• Su Tianbei ordered the Su family men to go with him and defend the yard, despite Third Sister urging him to wait for Eldest Brother.

The Su Family faced a takeover attempt by Changqing Company at their storage yard, but Su Tiannan negotiated a five-day delay. After learning how precarious the family’s position was, Su Tianyu decided to speak privately with his eldest cousin, while Su Tianbei left to make a secret arrangement.

• Su Tianbei led Su relatives and workers to confront Lu Feng and Changqing Company’s men at the storage yard after they presented an order to take over the operation.
• Su Tianbei tore up the order and prepared to fight, but Su Tiannan arrived and negotiated a five-day delay with Lu Feng.
• Su Tiannan told Su Tianbei, Su Miaomiao, and Su Tianyu that the Police Bureau would only stall the case and that the Su, Bai, Liu, and Kong families were all under pressure.
• Su Tianyu learned that Su Tianbei was carrying a weapon and resolved to speak with Su Tiannan about the family’s situation.
• Su Tianbei left the courtyard and told a young man to contact someone, insisting that the matter stay between them.

Su Tianyu persuaded Su Tiannan to rally the company’s managers against the Changqing Company, then pressured them to unite by warning that Changqing wanted their sanitation jobs. The chapter ended with Su Tianbei asking an associate to get him guns.

• Su Tianyu told Su Tiannan that the family should unite its workers and join forces with the three other companies targeted by Changqing.
• Su Tiannan agreed to summon the managers that night, while Li Hongze and Lu Feng discussed taking over the Su, Bai, Liu, and Kong companies.
• Su Tianyu confronted the managers with termination agreements and explained that Changqing wanted the eight hundred registered sanitation worker slots held by the Su Family.
• Su Tianyu offered the managers a choice between signing the agreements and fighting alongside the Su Family, and Su Tiannan promised them the company’s assets if the family went bankrupt.
• Su Tianyu told Su Tiannan they needed to approach the other three companies, while Su Tianbei asked an associate to get him a couple of guns.

Su Tiannan and Su Tianyu persuaded the Bai, Liu, and Kong families to unite against Changqing Company rather than surrender their operations. As they prepared to contact their Police Bureau connections, they learned that Su Tianbei had been beaten.

• Su Tiannan offered to support Su Tianyu's plan to take the civil service exam and invited him to discuss the crisis with the other three families.
• Su Tianyu learned that Su Tianbei was out drinking with friends who had helped look after their detained uncle.
• Su Tiannan explained that the Bai Family planned to pay for a lighter sentence, the Liu Family was considering surrender, and the Kong Family wanted help resisting Changqing Company.
• At Fuhai Teahouse, Su Tiannan argued that Changqing Company would exploit the four families even if they surrendered, and he urged them to unite and fight back.
• Kong Zhenghui and Bai Hongbo agreed to follow Su Tiannan, and Second Liu eventually joined them.
• After the meeting, Su Tiannan and Su Tianyu planned to contact their Police Bureau ally, but a caller informed Su Tiannan that Su Tianbei had been beaten.

After Su Tianbei returned badly wounded from a failed attempt to capture one of Lu Feng’s managers, Su Tianyu and Su Tiannan led representatives of the Bai, Liu, and Kong families to negotiate with Lu Feng. Su Tianyu stabbed Lu Feng during the meeting, then trapped the other families in the confrontation by summoning their waiting men into Changqing Company’s freight yard.

• Su Tianbei told Su Tiannan and Su Tianyu that his attempt to capture a Lu Feng manager had failed, and Su Tiannan ordered him to recover while the brothers planned their next move.
• Su Tianyu persuaded Su Tiannan to gather the Bai, Liu, and Kong families and negotiate with Lu Feng, who demanded they surrender their sanitation operations.
• When Lu Feng threatened the families and attacked Su Tianyu, Su Tianyu fought back, knocked him down, and pinned his ear to the table with a fruit knife.
• The second Liu brother and Bai Hongbo tried to leave, but Su Tiannan threatened to kill Lu Feng and turn himself in, while Su Tianyu warned that all four families would share the blame.
• Su Tianyu shouted from the window that Lu Feng was attacking them, prompting the families’ waiting men to grab tools and rush into the freight yard.

The Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong Families stormed Changqing Company's plant after hearing their leaders were threatened, and a chaotic fight broke out as the leaders escaped Lu Feng's office. Lu Feng chased Su Tianyu out of the compound, and Su Tianyu fled into a red sedan, urgently demanding that its stunned driver take off.

• The younger members of the four families rushed into the plant to rescue their leaders, triggering a brawl with Changqing Company's men.
• Su Tianyu, Su Tiannan, Kong Zhenghui, Liu the Second, and Bai Hongbo escaped Lu Feng's office by jumping from a window, though Bai Hongbo landed hard and injured his tailbone.
• Lu Feng tore off his nearly severed ear, armed himself with a decorative saber, and led his men downstairs to pursue the families.
• Lu Feng charged at Su Tianyu and Bai Hongbo, knocking down several men as Su Tianyu ran from the compound with the others.
• Su Tianyu escaped around a corner and climbed into a red sedan, where he told the startled woman driving to hurry away.

Su Tianyu escaped Lu Feng’s pursuit, while the Su, Bai, Liu, and Kong families prepared to unite against Changqing Company. That evening, their leaders gathered at the Su Family home to plan their next move.

• Su Tianyu escaped Lu Feng by fleeing in Qiqi’s red sedan, then threatened her and ran off on foot.
• Police Affairs Bureau personnel separated the fighters and warned the sanitation companies that the bureau would investigate but could not let their dispute cause wider unrest.
• Su Tianyu returned to the Su Family home, where Su Tiannan agreed that the families should unite and called the other leaders.
• Bai Hongbo called Lu Feng to explain the day’s fight, but Lu Feng threatened him and hung up; Bai then told his family that the four companies should counterattack together.
• Lu Feng had a doctor sew his severed ear back on.
• Bai Hongbo, Liu the Second, Kong Zhenghui, and the others gathered at the Su Family home, where Su Tiannan began discussing the four companies’ shutdowns and Kong Zhenghui agreed to get started.

Su Tianyu and the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong families escalated their fight with Changqing Company by shutting down sanitation work and protesting its alleged monopoly. As Changqing prepared to intimidate the workers, Su Tianyu welcomed Bai Hongbo at a family dinner, while an unnamed political figure declined to meet anyone from the four companies.

• The Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong companies shut down, leaving most of Zhannan District without sanitation service, and their younger family members protested Changqing Company at the district administration office.
• Li Hongze met Zheng Fu'an, who told him to resolve the dispute quickly or release the four companies' leaders; Li chose to press ahead with the operation.
• Lu Feng proposed crippling workers who led the protest, while Li warned that the authorities opposed mass brawls.
• Su Tianyu joined his family for a welcome-home dinner, where Su Tiannan and their second aunt urged the family to stand together.
• Bai Hongbo arrived to discuss the next steps and accused Su Tianyu of drawing their families into the conflict by leading Lu Feng toward him.
• A middle-aged man in a Longkou District villa told his aide not to receive anyone from the four companies, while two young women entered the villa.

At a banquet, Su Tianyu used Bai Hongbo’s drunken boasting to win his support for the four companies’ resistance against Changqing Company, then outlined how the Su Family could maintain its work stoppage. The next day, protesters gathered at the Management Council as Lu Feng arrived to identify the loudest shareholders, while Bai Hongbo woke with no memory of the previous evening.

• Su Tianyu thanked Bai Hongbo for supposedly holding off Lu Feng at the dump, and the Su Family praised Bai as a real man.
• After drinking heavily, Bai Hongbo nearly revealed that he had called Lu Feng, then pledged to back the four companies and help secure the release of Su Tiannan’s uncle.
• Su Tianyu advised the Su Family to protect its management team, maintain its own operations, and wait for the work stoppage to pressure Changqing Company.
• The four companies’ managers and shareholders gathered peacefully outside the District Management Council to present their demands.
• Lu Feng arrived at the Management Council and ordered someone to find out which company’s shareholders were shouting the loudest.
• Bai Hongbo woke with a splitting headache and could not remember why he had visited the Su Family or how they had praised him.

Su Tianyu organized a continuing work stoppage against Changqing Company’s sanitation monopoly while building connections that could help free his uncle. As the protest dragged on, Lu Feng sent five men to carry out an attack, and Wu Shixiong volunteered for night watch at the Su Family yard.

• Lu Feng watched the protest, bribed a police sergeant with a dinner invitation, and had a subordinate memorize the demonstrators’ faces.
• Su Tianyu urged Su Tiannan to build a relationship with Wang Daolin, since the Police Bureau would have to approve their uncle’s release.
• Su Tianyu studied the waste-yard business, met the intellectually disabled worker Wu Shixiong, and heard him volunteer for night watch.
• Kong Zhenghui dismissed the idea of providing protestors with meals and transportation, even as the Su Family continued supporting its workers.
• Lu Feng stopped his minivan in an alley and told five men to carry out an attack, promising them a visit to New World of Glamour afterward.

Lu Feng’s men brutally attacked Bai Family and Kong Family workers to intimidate anyone resisting Changqing Company, while Kong Zhenghui went to the hospital after hearing about the assault. At the Su Family garbage yard, Su Tianyu caught Black Iron Tower peeking into his third sister’s room.

• A Bai Family manager and a Kong Family crew leader named He Daming joined their workers for a meal and discussed their companies’ dispute with Changqing Company.
• Five men in floral shirts ambushed the workers, stabbed He Daming, and beat him and Li Gang before their leader smashed their hands and feet with a sledgehammer.
• Lu Feng ordered his driver to spread word that workers who refused to cooperate would be punished, while compliant workers might receive jobs later.
• Kong Zhenghui learned that his workers had been attacked and decided to go to the hospital himself.
• At the Su Family garbage yard, Su Tianyu caught Black Iron Tower peeking through his third sister’s window at the clothes hanging inside.

Kong Zhenghui pressured He Daming’s frightened family to cooperate with the media by promising hospital care, compensation, and a job for He’s son, while Bai Hongbo gave Li Gang’s family cash and reassured them. At the Su family yard, Su Tianyu learned that two company workers had been badly injured, while Lu Feng prepared to exploit the attack to force another company out.

• Kong Zhenghui promised the company would cover He Daming’s care, then threatened that the company might collapse unless He’s wife spoke to reporters about Changqing Company’s monopoly and suspected retaliation.
• Kong Zhenghui offered He Daming’s family at least twenty thousand in compensation and a company job for their son in exchange for cooperation with the media.
• Bai Hongbo visited Li Gang’s family after drinking, gave them over three thousand in cash, and assured them the company would cover their expenses and compensation.
• Su Tianyu watched workers joke at Wu Shixiong’s expense until Third Sister reprimanded them and sent them out to patrol.
• Su Tiannan told Su Tianyu that two company workers had been attacked and badly hurt, and Su Tianyu asked to discuss it upstairs.
• Lu Feng told Li Hongze he planned to use the situation to take down another company if his opponent pulled people out the next day.

After the attacks on two managers, Su Tianyu advised the four companies to suspend protests while resisting Changqing Company in other ways. Changqing’s thugs arrived at the garbage yard that night, where Tianbei and Third Sister were still nearby.

• Su Tianyu told Su Tiannan to cancel the planned protest, keep the companies’ people safe, and continue suspending work; Kong Zhenghui said he had contacted local media.
• Zheng Fu'an learned that no one had gathered to protest and praised Li Hongze for resolving the problem, while Li told Lu Feng that Zheng wanted the remaining issues dealt with quickly.
• Lu Feng said he had already arranged to act that night, and Li Hongze warned him to keep things under control.
• Kong Zhenghui worked his media contacts while Bai Hongbo and Liu the Second tried to reassure their people; Su Tianyu stayed at the garbage yard and reviewed civil-service exam requirements.
• After showering, Su Tianyu called Tianbei, while Third Sister returned to the plant and Black Iron Tower, also called Wu Shixiong, spoke with her.
• Three vans carrying the thugs who had attacked the managers approached the plant.

Lu Feng sent Floral Shirt and his armed men to attack the Su Family scrapyard and punish its members for resisting Changqing Company. Da Xiong fought back to protect Third Sister, and Su Tianyu reached the lobby as the raid turned into a brawl.

• Lu Feng ordered Floral Shirt to hurt the Su Family without killing them, and Floral Shirt led more than a dozen armed men into the scrapyard.
• Third Sister prepared to leave, but Da Xiong followed her outside as the gang attacked the night workers and identified her as Su Tiannan's sister.
• Third Sister bit a thug who grabbed her, and Floral Shirt raised his knife to attack her.
• Da Xiong charged into the lobby, struck Floral Shirt with a chair, then lifted a registration desk and slammed it onto him.
• The thugs slashed Da Xiong as he swung the desk, while Su Tianyu ran downstairs and took his place at the foot of the stairs.

Su Tianyu and the Su Family fought off an assault at the garbage dump after Su Tianbei arrived with their inner circle. The attackers fled or were captured, but the old warehouses caught fire, and Lu Feng headed out after learning the raid had gone wrong.

• Su Tianyu fought off two armed thugs and held the corridor while Da Xiong escaped toward the stairs.
• Su Tianbei arrived with thirty or forty Su Family allies, who shut the entrance shutter and overwhelmed Floral Shirt's gang.
• Su Miaomiao came downstairs with cleavers, and the Su Family group beat and detained Floral Shirt while several attackers fled over the walls.
• Su Tianyu told Su Tianbei that the old warehouse had been cleared, and the two knew people were waiting outside as the warehouses caught fire.
• A surviving attacker called Lu Feng to report the failed raid, and Lu Feng left after learning A Ming-Floral Shirt was missing.
• Kong Zhenghui heard about the attack, called Su Tiannan, and arranged to bring people to the yard.

After Lu Feng’s men attacked and burned the Su Family’s waste yard, Su Tianyu urged Kong Zhenghui to hold off on involving the media and told Su Tiannan to seek help from Wang Daolin. Lu Feng could not find several of his men and denied ordering the fire, while Su Tiannan tried to persuade Wang to pressure Changqing Company; the chapter ended with Su Tianbei discovering his gun was missing.

• Su Tianbei told the Police Affairs Bureau that Lu Feng’s attackers had vandalized the yard, started a fire, and injured five workers.
• Su Tianyu advised Kong Zhenghui to wait before using their media contacts, then told Su Tiannan to arrange an immediate meeting with Wang Daolin.
• Lu Feng learned that several of his men were missing, argued with Ermao about the attack and fire, and denied setting the fire when Li Hongze confronted him.
• Su Tiannan offered Wang Daolin the attackers as leverage and asked him to pressure Changqing Company into settling the dispute.
• Su Tianbei went to retrieve the gun he had hidden beneath his car seat and found it was gone.

Su Tiannan’s attempt to recruit Wang Daolin’s help failed, and a gunman attacked them outside the restaurant, shooting Su Tiannan and narrowly missing Wang Daolin. The gunman escaped and erased his traces, while Lu Feng was left bewildered after Li Xing accused him of ordering the attack.

• Wang Daolin refused Su Tiannan’s offer to help the Su Family, explaining that intervening against Changqing Company would provoke its powerful connections.
• Su Tiannan left the private room with Wang Daolin, but a gunman approached and Su Tiannan struggled to stop him from firing.
• The gunman shot Su Tiannan in the abdomen, then fired three shots over Wang Daolin’s head before escaping through a window.
• The gunman dismantled and discarded his pistol, burned his clothes and other belongings, and fled through Zhannan District.
• Wang Daolin’s colleagues blamed Changqing Company for the attack, and Wang Daolin said the shots had been a warning.
• Li Xing angrily called Lu Feng about the shooting, but Lu Feng denied knowing what he meant as the gunman walked beneath the streetlights.

After Wang Daolin agreed to help Su Tiannan take action against Changqing Company, Su Tianyu arranged for the captured men to be handed to the police. As the Police Bureau investigated the shooting, a powerful man in Longkou District prepared to send a message to the Four Companies.

• Wang Daolin agreed to help Su Tiannan and told him to let the police take the captured men while Su Tiannan handled the contacts who assisted them.
• Su Tiannan called Su Tianyu, who took the men to a rural road and arranged for Li Xing's officers to collect them.
• Li Hongze and Li Xing questioned Lu Feng about the shooting, but Lu Feng denied arranging it, and Li Xing remained suspicious of him.
• Su Tianyu and Su Tianbei handed Floral Shirt and the others over to police officers, who questioned Floral Shirt about his claimed ties to Li Xing.
• A refined middle-aged man in Longkou District ordered his secretary to pass a message to the Four Companies the next day.

Wang Daolin used the attacks on the Su Family to pressure Changqing Company, while Su Tianyu and his allies sought support from a new Management Council official. The chapter ended with a bald inmate recognizing that Floral Shirt had attacked the Su Family's garbage yard and ordering the cell to beat him.

• Wang Daolin arrested Changqing Company henchmen and employees, then rejected Li Xing's calls as Li tried to reach him.
• Deputy Commissioner Guo asked Wang Daolin to limit the investigation to the arrested henchmen until Changqing's representatives could talk with him, and Wang agreed.
• Su Tianbei asked Su Tiannan if he had taken his missing gun, but Su Tiannan denied it.
• Bai Hongbo told Su Tiannan that Yu Jinrong had criticized Changqing Company's monopoly, so Su Tianyu, Su Tianbei, and Bai set out to meet Yu through an intermediary.
• Floral Shirt told the cell boss that he had trashed the Su Family's garbage yard, and a bald inmate kicked him and called for the other prisoners to use him for practice.

After Yu Jinrong signaled support for the four families, mounting pressure forced Li Hongze to seek negotiations with them at Fortune House. Su Tianyu and the others arrived for the late-night meeting, while police and powerful figures waited to see how the talks would unfold.

• Yu Jinrong met the younger members of the Su, Liu, Bai, and Kong Families, signaling that he would support them if his interests were not at risk.
• Li Xing warned Li Hongze that Wang Daolin would investigate Changqing Company's violence unless Li Hongze backed down, and Zheng Fu'an also pressured him to settle the dispute.
• Li Hongze called Su Tiannan and arranged a meeting with all four families at Fortune House for ten that night.
• At the hospital, Su Tianyu urged Su Tiannan to demand both the release of their men and compensation, and Wang Daolin left the negotiations to them.
• Wang Daolin and Li Xing positioned officers outside Fortune House as Zheng Fu'an and Yu Jinrong awaited news of the talks.
• Su Tianyu, Su Tianbei, Kong Zhenghui, Liu the Second, Bai Hongbo, and six others arrived at Fortune House and entered together.