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Tags: Modern | BE (Bad Ending) | Crime | Shounen-ai| Tragic Romance |
“Jingwei” Chapter 1
When Zhou Shaobo and I were young, our dream was to become police officers.
But later…
He became the boss of the largest crime syndicate in South China.
I became his most powerful subordinate.
On the day we were both arrested and sent to prison, he rubbed his nose and said:
“Bro, I don’t owe you anything anymore. In the next life, let’s be brothers again.”
But I lowered my eyes, calmly asked the guard to open the door for me, and said to him through the iron bars:
“Sorry, this is my badge.”
My real identity is that of an undercover police officer.
1
It was raining lightly on the day of Zhou Shaobo’s sentencing.
I sat at the courthouse entrance, smoking a cigarette, but the rain kept putting it out. I couldn’t get it to light.
When they were being escorted out, the former second-in-command of the organization spat at me.
“Traitor! Zhou Lin, you’re a damn ingrate.”
My hand, which was holding the cigarette, trembled slightly as I looked over at Zhou Shaobo.
He still had no expression on his face.
At the time, I thought that would be the last time I ever saw him.
The devil who took countless lives would die by execution.
And I had finally completed my long, grueling undercover mission.
But the next day…
The bureau told me that Zhou Shaobo had escaped from prison.
2
When I heard the news, I was in the middle of writing my performance report.
A colleague in uniform barged in and knocked me to the ground.
“Zhou Shaobo escaped!!”
“The armed forces they have don’t match the intel you provided!!”
“Are you hiding something?!”
His fists rained down on me for no apparent reason.
He grabbed me by the collar, my head hanging to the side.
Other colleagues rushed in to pull him off me.
He coughed violently and threw a photo at me.
In the photo, the only car left at the scene—the one transporting Zhou Shaobo—was covered in the blood of my fellow officers.
Zhou Shaobo had written my name in blood all over it.
3
“The ones who broke Zhou Shaobo out belong to a foreign force we haven’t yet identified.”
“All 31 police officers transporting him have been confirmed dead, not a single one survived.”
I couldn’t get my lighter to work.
My partner, standing next to me, nodded toward the guy who had just punched me.
“That Officer Wang… his girlfriend was among the dead.”
So, it was his girlfriend who had been killed.
No wonder he harbored so much resentment toward me.
“I didn’t withhold any information.”
“I had no idea about any foreign connections.”
I shoved the lighter into my pocket, chuckling bitterly.
No matter how much I explained, it sounded weak and hollow.
“It’s alright, I believe you,” my partner said, patting me on the shoulder.
“If you were on Zhou Shaobo’s side, this place would’ve been turned to rubble by now.”
“……”
I didn’t know how to respond, so I just stared at the mist forming in the air.
But for some reason, my mind wandered back to the night before Zhou Shaobo was arrested. He had rubbed my shoulder.
“Hey Lin, can I borrow a light?”
The man’s nose was sharp, and his eyelashes long as he lowered his gaze.
He leaned in close and took a spark from the cigarette I had in my mouth.
I asked him if he didn’t have his own lighter.
He smiled and said, “I want everything of yours.”
4
After graduating from the police academy, I went undercover to get close to Zhou Shaobo.
As kids, we had both lived in the same orphanage.
We had been close friends.
Because of this, I had the perfect, natural excuse to approach Zhou Shaobo.
But the moment we met, he ordered his men to beat me up.
I remember he was wearing a dirty pair of Anta sneakers that day, his foot pressing down on my shoulder.
My fingers were broken on the first hit—it hurt worse than any injury I’d ever gotten in the police academy.
He grabbed my hair and asked,
“Didn’t I tell you to get lost? Why did you come back?”
I gritted my teeth to hold back the pain, lifting my head to look him in the eye.
I said,
“Don’t drive me away.”
“I’ve got nowhere else to go, brother.”
5
Zhou Shaobo took me in.
But for several nights in a row, all he did was have me drink with his gang.
“Come on, drink more.”
“You’re Zhou Lin, right? I hear you’re the boss’s brother?”
A sleazy guy slung his arm over my shoulder.
My clean, white shirt seemed out of place in this world.
He smirked mockingly.
“Why so shy?”
“We’re all brothers here.”
“Look, your brother—”
Through the haze of alcohol, I followed his finger and saw Zhou Shaobo sitting there.
A beautiful young man was climbing onto his lap, pouring liquor into his mouth.
His subordinates sat nearby, laughing and chatting like it was nothing unusual.
…That was the first time I realized Zhou Shaobo’s sexual orientation.
I began to feel relieved that, as a child, I had never done more than crawl into his bed and rub his stomach.
6
I told Zhou Shaobo that I had dropped out of high school after graduating from junior high.
He laughed with a cigarette in his mouth, calling me dumb.
“I fought so hard to get you out of here back then, and you ended up like this?”
“……”
But those days troubled me too.
Zhou Shaobo’s legitimate business was in tea trading, and my job was to oversee the tea sales.
But anyone could tell that he wasn’t just selling tea.
One day, I ran out to stop him from getting into his car.
“You can’t make me sell tea leaves for the rest of my life.”
He laughed, and for some reason, I felt like he thought I was cute.
“Then what do you want to sell?”
The man tilted his head, asking patiently.
I hesitated.
If I told him what I really wanted, I was afraid he’d put a gun to my head right then and there.
“Scared?”
He smiled, reading my expression.
That was the moment I realized Zhou Shaobo was no longer the person I used to know.
He was sharper than I’d ever been, and we were already walking down completely different paths.
So, I gritted my teeth and got into his car.
“I want to sell what you’re selling, of course.”
“Brother, I want to do something big.”
“If you can do it, why can’t I?”
6
Then Zhou Shaobo brought me to…
A tea egg factory.
……
“You’re messing with me.”
I twitched my mouth, realizing the joke.
“This factory is yours now, Lin. You’ve been educated, so you should know how to run it.”
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