Mad Fire: The Rogue Soldier

Fengzi Wang

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1.9M words

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Male-Oriented Fiction Urban Fiction Social ObservationComplex HumanityPsychological InsightIllustrated GuidePractical GuideWeb NovelFemale Perspective

Summary

Wang Feng is a feared rogue soldier of the underworld, code-named Blade, who has dominated the mercenary circle for years with his formidable combat prowess and shameless tactics. Entrusted on his deathbed by his benefactor Shangguan Tuo to protect female CEO Shangguan Longyun, he returns home but refuses to play by the rules—first approaching his target under the guise of selling jianbing guozi, and inexplicably taking in a half-grown daughter. Using the excuse of finding a mother for his daughter, he pursues a policewoman, romances college students, and flirts with his boss, all while joking around and secretly investigating his own origins and the massive conspiracy surrounding him. As the Dragon Soul, family factions, and mysterious missions come to light, Wang Feng returns from street vendor to battlefield, embarking on a roguish urban adventure.

Editor's review

This book suits urban power-fantasy readers who enjoy the return of the soldier king, hiding one's strength, and roguish storytelling. The opening uses the contrast between a small town under a dark-world bounty and a jianbing stall to establish the protagonist; the pace is fast, the language colloquial, and face-slapping scenes are dense, while the interplay between the soldier king and the female CEO also has appeal. Its weaknesses are that the setup and plot beats are fairly formulaic, the protagonist's plot armor is obvious, and some jokes push the bounds of taste; serialization data vary across pirate sites, and the completed word count is hard to verify.

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Reading tips

  1. Read chapters 1–3 first to confirm you can accept the roguish humor and exaggerated setup before continuing
  2. Read it as a fast-paced urban power fantasy; don't be too strict about military details or logic
  3. Chapter order may differ across sites after completion; choose an official channel with a complete table of contents

FAQ

What is Mad Fire: The Rogue Soldier about? Soldier king Wang Feng is asked to return home to protect a female CEO, posing as a jianbing vendor while investigating the conspiracy behind his origins.
Is this book completed? Public tables of contents indicate it is completed, with the final chapter titled "Another Ending."
What kind of protagonist is he? A roguish soldier king with top-tier combat ability and unscrupulous methods, skilled at hiding his strength and slapping down opponents.

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About the author

Fengzi Wang Author

Fengzi Wang is a Chinese web-novel author whose nationality, birth and death years are not clearly recorded; public information about the author is limited. Four of the author's works are currently included in the collection: The Mermaid's Confession, Super Black Soldier, Soldiers Shake the World, and The Crazy-Fire Rogue Soldier. These titles show that the author's writing spans several categories, including women's fiction, modern romance, men's fiction, urban fiction, and supernatural powers. The range is notably broad: some works lean toward emotional, romance-oriented storytelling, while others center on urban supernatural tales in the "soldier" series. The overall style tends toward fast-paced, plot-driven popular genre writing that caters to the reading tastes of different audiences. Because relatively little information is available about the author's personal life and creative background, biographical details cannot yet be supplied; readers may come to know this author mainly through the thematic orientations and narrative styles of the collected works.