Volume 1, Chapter 39: An Even Dimmer Alley

When I finally hailed a motorcycle taxi and arrived at the Back Street, specifically the long avenue where Moonlight Bay was located, it was already three in the morning.

At three in the morning, the area was still ablaze with neon lights.

All sorts of night markets, food stalls, and massage parlors lined the streets. Streetwalkers solicited customers, while clients haggled over prices. Outside the dim entrance of Moonlight Bay, groups of young men and women gathered amidst the blaring music. They were kissing, vomiting, throwing drunken tantrums, arguing, and even drawing knives in fights.

Passersby hurried past with expressions of apparent numbness, none of them pausing or gathering around—perhaps because none of them wanted to court trouble.

There was no help for it; this was, after all, the Back Street of Dongguan...