It wouldn't matter if a person were destined to be poor forever. But once you have tasted the life of the wealthy, you can never go back.
Back in Shenzhen, there was once a notorious drug-trafficking village. The entire village, under the unified command of the village head, operated a complete, self-contained system of production and sales. Outsiders aside, even the police who went to investigate were either co-opted through marriage and turned into their own, or simply murdered and fed to the fish. This went on for twenty years until the state finally took drastic action, dispatching special police units like Chen Rou’s to bring them to justice.
In the drug trade, kin and clan have always been the most reliable bonds.
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