Shi Yijian was born and raised in Macau, but he had spent some time in the Hong Kong Island underworld.
After all, Hong Kong Island was more than ten times the size of Macau as a city, and naturally offered far more opportunities.
In their youth, he and Jiang Dawei, now a fairly well-known financial backer in Macau's gambling industry, had crossed the sea together to seek their fortunes on Hong Kong Island. In the process, they had met Yu Le's biological father.
Not only that, but because they had hit it off and helped one another, the three had even cut off a chicken's head, burned yellow paper, and sworn an oath before Second Lord Guan to become sworn brothers.
But how could anyone roam the underworld without taking a blade sooner or later?
What was more, when Shi Yijian and his two sworn brothers had ventured through the Hong Kong Island underworld together, both sides of the law on Hong Kong Island had been at their most chaotic.
Before the three brothers could make their names, Yu Le's biological father had died young.
For gangsters in the underworld, life and death were ordained, and wealth and status lay in heaven's hands.
In those early years, Yu Le's biological father had suffered severe injuries while taking blades meant for Shi Yijian and Jiang Dawei.
Though his injuries had later healed, his health had ultimately been ruined.
His eventual fate could be considered the cycle of cause and effect.
The only pity was that Yu Le, who had been just seven at the time, had suffered for it.
His mother had died giving birth to him, and he had lost his father in childhood, leaving him an orphan.
Fortunately, his father's two sworn brothers had shouldered the burden of caring