Chapter 607: The Past
Year 2035, on a blue planet called "Earth."
Zhang Haoran was a 35-year-old handsome man living in the city of Shanghai, China. He lived with his little sister in a normal household. They no longer had any parents, as their parents had left them when they were young.
There was nothing particularly conspicuous about him on the outside, he looked just like an ordinary handsome man. His sister also lived a normal life, working as a secretary at a corporation.
However, behind that handsome and seemingly ordinary appearance, Zhang Haoran lived a life far from normal, one that even his sister didn’t know about. Behind the scenes, he was actually an important member of a mafia group.
Having once sought a way to earn money, he had become trapped in the world of organized crime.
He was one of the best henchmen under the boss of that mafia group and eventually became the brain behind their operations. His contributions to the organization were immense, allowing the group to grow at a tremendous rate. They began absorbing many smaller gangs and even destroyed rival mafia groups, causing their influence to expand rapidly.
This rapid growth alarmed the other groups in the surrounding regions. Feeling threatened, multiple mafia groups across China joined forces and launched a coordinated attack, ultimately destroying Zhang Haoran’s group and leaving only a few survivors.
He was captured by one of the enemy groups, who saw his value and decided not to kill him. Instead, they chose to use him as much as they could. Knowing how important he was, they threatened him with his sister’s safety, forcing him to work for the very group that had destroyed his own.
Year 2040.
He had helped the mafia group grow even larger and more powerful. However, he had lived like a dog all this time. Even though the group relied on his value, they never treated him like a colleague. Instead, he was treated like an animal on a leash, forced to obey, with his sister’s life as the chain around his neck.
His sister, unaware of any danger, lived her life normally. She didn’t know that the mafia group was constantly watching her, using her as leverage to keep him under control.