Chapter 123: Parade of a Hundred Ghosts

Du Xiaoyu's real name was, in fact, Du Xiaoyu. It was such a common name you could find a dozen just by walking down the street, so there was no point in changing or concealing it.

He was as ordinary as his name suggested: a man with a basic compulsory education, no steady job, and no particular talents to speak of.

From the age of fourteen, after his father was arrested for “endangering federal security” and his mother remarried, he started running with the wrong crowd. He’d latch onto local gangsters, serve as hired muscle to bolster their numbers, and quickly earned a bad reputation in his neighborhood.

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