Jidong Memoirs: The Days We Ran the Streets

What is the jianghu? At sixteen, I thought the jianghu was the machete in a hoodlum's hand, brotherly loyalty, a single command that left blood splattered five steps away. Later, I learned— the jianghu is a chess game. Whether you're a pawn or a player isn't up to you. The jianghu is killing someone and letting it end with a bow, but more often, you don't even qualify to "kill." In the year 2000, in a county town in Jidong, Chen Haonan on VCD taught a generation what it meant to "run the streets." And I, Chen Shi, spent a full ten years learning what "cost" means. This is not a story of rising from nothing. This is a story about how our generation was swallowed by the jianghu, crushed, and then gritted our teeth and got back up. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Jidong Memoirs: The Days We Ran the Streets — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠