Chapter 01: Fu Jinlong

Western region, FengXuan city, Jinan province.

Pah, Pah, Pah."

In front of an Internet cafe, a few thugs surrounded a young man.

In the middle of their formation, a blonde haired man was slapping the young man continuously. While the other thugs just laughing in entertainment.

"Come on, you dog. Give me your fu*king money. What? You don't want to give me the money for your daily protection, huh?" The thug slapped him again. The young man fell on the ground on his butt, and face got swollen.

The young man touched his face and said.

"Brother Hao, I don't have money today. I didn't go to work today. Please! let me go." The young man begged, as he cried.

The blonde thug raised his eyebrows, "Then what were you doing in the Internet cafe, huh!?"

"l, I, I..." The young man stuttered. He didn't know how to answer. He had some money for buying some food. He couldn't just give the money to the thug, as it was his only money.

After seeing his stuttering face, the thug picked him up from the ground by his collar, like a dog.

"You lowly dog, let me check your body." He smiled menacingly and started checking his body. Soon, he found two notes of one hundred yuan on his left leg pocket.

The thug took the money and smiled sinisterly.

"You mother fu*ker. How dare you lie to me? He kicked him on his stomach.

"Ahh..!" The young man immediately shrieked in pain.

A while later, he tried to stand up, touching his stomach.

"Cough! Cough!" The young man looked up at the thug while puking blood.

"Brother Hao, I only have these two hundred yuan left. Please, don't take it. Otherwise, I will have to starve tonight."

The blonde man smirked sinisterly. "Do I look like I care about you? You are just a lowly dog." He kicked him again and then started to leave from there with his fellow thugs.

The young man groaned in pain while lying on the ground.

"Bas*tard!"

The young man suddenly yelled at him angrily. Normally, he would not dare to flare at him. But today he did not know why he suddenly exploded.

"Huh..!" The blonde thug turned around, after hearing the sudden insulting words from behind. Then the thug glared at him coldly.

"Hahaha..Hao Lei, did you hear that? That punk just called you bas*tard. Hahahaha.." The other thugs laughed out loud.

Feeling humiliated in front of his companions, Hao Lei started walking towards the young man.

Hao Lei glared at him coldly.

"You lowly pig, how dare you call me bas*tard, ha!" He started beating him more brutally. He furiously punched his face and kicked his abdomen. He kept beating him black and blue.

By the time he was finished beating him, the young man was lying on the ground in the pool of blood.

He was groaning in agony. His face looked like a pig, and his whole body was covered with bruises. Tears streamed down his cheeks. His shabby clothes were stained with blood.

"Oh. Man! it was so satisfying beating up this dog. Then he turned around to his companions and said, "Let's go, guys." Saying that Hao Lei and the other thugs left the place. They knew if they stayed there any longer the police would surely come.

Many people witnessed the whole situation, but no one dared to come forward to help. Because they knew those thugs were from the local Scarlet Reaper Gang, and their boss was tyrant Zhao Sheng.

Hey, Is that kid dead or fainted? Should we call an ambulance? Someone whispered. But no one came forward to help. They just watched the show with interest. Humans always find amusement in other's misfortune.

The young man could not even move a muscle. He was in despair. Soon, he fainted.

"Ah Jin!" Suddenly a scholarly young man with glasses was running towards him. He had a worried expression on his face.

"Ah Jin, Ah Jin! Wake up. What happened to you? Who did this to you?" He began to shout his name on the top of his lungs. But there was no reply from him as he already fainted.

Soon, he grabbed a passerby's shoulder.

"Tell me everything about what happened here. Otherwise.... " He threatened the man with his cold glare. The passerby panicked and told him everything he saw.

"Uhh."

Those bas*tards again." Upon hearing about everything, he was so angry that his blood boiled. But there was nothing he could do but to see his friend getting beaten up again and again.

This was not his first time getting beaten up by them. But this time they have gone overboard. This time, they thrashed him so mercilessly.

"Young man, you should take him to the hospital first. Otherwise he might die anytime soon." All of a sudden, an elderly man suggested.

Upon hearing the elderly man's words, he frowned.

"Hospital? Where do I get money for the hospital?" He thought to himself. They were so poor that they couldn't even pay the monthly rent of their old house in time. Where would he get money for the hospital charge. One of them is a daily labourer, and another one is a high school student.

Without giving him reply, he carried the young man on his back. He took a taxi and was on his way to their old home.

On the way, the young man suddenly opened his eyelids slightly, and saw his friend's face in a hazy vision.

He began to mumble while coughing. "Ah Liang, you're here. Look at my pathetic face. They have beaten me again. Those bas*tards don't even think of us as humans. Are we always going to get trampled by them?

Ah Liang. Tell me why? Just because we don't have our own family and money, we are not humans anymore. Is it our fault that our parents left us to get rotten? I just wanted to live peacefully, but now that is also difficult." He laughed bitterly in his semi-conscious state.

After a while, his hazy eyes got closed and fell unconscious again.

The scholarly young boy's just pursed his lips at his friend's sorrowful words. Sometimes he also thinks why did his parents left him alone in this cruel society. "Were they a burden for their parents? Was his birth was disgraceful for them?"

The young man's name is Fu Jinlong, and the scholarly young boy with glasses is Fu Liang. Both of them grew up in the same Orphanage since childhood. They were friends and brother-like figures for each other. Although their surname were the same, they were not related by blood.