Blue Star is an ordinary, modern world.
Strict laws and regulations, advanced technology, and rigid class structure.
Ordinary people rarely have a chance to get ahead.
Xiao Ning was born into an ordinary peasant family. His ancestors for eight generations were all peasants, and if nothing unexpected happened, they would never be able to turn their lives around.
His father, Xiao Weiguo, had two brothers and a younger brother, Xiao Xiaojun, who was four years younger than him and was Xiao Ning's uncle.
When Xiao Weiguo was young, he was bold and energetic. During the reform and opening-up period, he joined the wave of people going south and made a fortune.
This was originally a good thing.
Unfortunately, the truth that men with money become bad has been proven true in Xiao Weiguo's case.
Xiao Weiguo worked hard for more than ten years after he started working at the factory, and finally became successful.
Then, he changed his mind.
He felt that the women in his hometown were not good enough for him.
When Xiao Ning was 6 years old, Xiao Weiguo filed for divorce.
Xiao Ning's mother, Wang Chunxiang, was a fiery and stubborn woman who was not one to accept things passively. She thought, "Since you, Xiao, don't want me, why would I cling to you?"
So the two got divorced.
No matter how much their parents tried to persuade them, they couldn't change their minds.
The judgment awarded Xiao Ning to his father, Xiao Weiguo, but Xiao Weiguo then abandoned him in the countryside and lived a carefree life outside. Apart from sending money back every month, he rarely returned to his hometown throughout the year.
From that year on, Xiao Ning became an orphan.
Apart from his grandparents, no one else cared for him.
Xiao Ning was greatly affected by her parents' divorce.
Skipping classes to go online, fighting, and harassing female classmates became commonplace for him. His grandparents were too old to control him.
After graduating from junior high school, with the help of his uncle Xiao Xiaojun, Xiao Ning entered Tagou Martial Arts School to learn martial arts. He went from being able to fight two people to being able to easily fight three people.
With such good skills, it would be a disservice to his four years of hard work not to go out and make a living.
This was Xiao Ning's thought when he graduated from martial arts school.
Xiao Ning acted very radically at that time.
Since they were children who were unwanted and neglected since childhood, they could do whatever they wanted.
In this world, apart from her grandparents, Xiao Ning doesn't care about anyone else, because no one cares about her anyway.
Last year, Xiao Ning turned 18 and became an adult.
Xiao Ning's mother, Wang Chunxiang, who married far away to Yuhang County, gave him a house in Yuhang County, while Xiao Ning's father, Xiao Weiguo, who lived in Nanyue, also gave him a house in Nanyue.
If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be so happy they couldn't sleep.
After all, many people struggle their whole lives and still can't afford a house.
Xiao Ning, however, acquired two sets at once.
However, he was not happy at all.
"You were not there when I needed my father's and mother's love."
"When I grow up, you each leave me a house, and then I'll be able to call you 'Dad' and 'Mom'?"
Can money really mend broken family ties?
"Then you're looking down on me, Xiao Ning, way too much!"
Therefore, in the summer of 2020, Xiao Ning came to Yuhang County from his hometown of Linjiang, intending to return the house that his mother, Wang Chunxiang, had given him.
He had already planned it out.
After returning Xiao's mother's house, they went south to return Xiao's father's house as well.
Xiao Ning believed that he would rather beg on the street than eat this handout!
That day, after arriving in Yuhang County by high-speed rail, Xiao Ning was welcomed by an older brother he knew from the streets, who treated him to a full range of entertainment.
Unexpectedly, something went wrong.
He got into a fight with someone while he was at a bar that night.
The hot-blooded young Xiao Ning was loyal and ruthless, breaking the other person's head. Unexpectedly, the other person's family had some influence and managed to get him involved.
New recruits are bound to be bullied when they first enter the detention center. They have to do things like washing dishes and cleaning toilets. Xiao Ning has a short temper and will fight at the slightest disagreement. He has been in solitary confinement many times, and being locked up for three to five days is commonplace.
All the guards in the detention center knew him. Among all the prisoners, everyone knew that there was a tough guy in cell 504 who would beat people up at the drop of a hat.
From then on, Xiao Ning was nicknamed the Great Demon King.
Later, the institute's leaders arranged for a psychological counselor to do ideological work for him, and Xiao Ning's personality gradually changed.
Now, with only three days left of his six-month sentence, Xiao Ning is about to be released from prison, but he suddenly has a miraculous encounter in his dream, which brings about a dramatic change in his life.
He needs to think carefully about what kind of work he should do after he gets out, and what kind of work he can do.