King of Soldier Kings

King of Soldier Kings is an urban action web novel by the online author Zhu Lin Yi Ye Qing. It was first serialized on 17K.com starting in 2013 and later appeared on platforms such as Baidu Novels; it runs about 740 chapters, 1.52 million characters, and is complete. The protagonist, Chen Erpao, comes from a military family—his father is Chen Dapao—and made his name in the special forces under the nickname "Mad Wolf," winning the army-wide championship in combat, marksmanship, and physical fitness three times running. After ten years of service, he also worked with the national anti-drug armed police corps in a sweep against the country's biggest drug lords. After a bereavement in his immediate family, this once high-spirited special forces major chooses to take off his uniform, wanting only a quiet, ordinary life, and applies for a security job at Lingnan University. Though the principal, Chen Yansong, is full of doubts about his choice, he ultimately keeps him on. Campus, however, is no haven: thugs picking fights, neighbourhood disputes, confrontations with rivals in love, canteen duels, and a bloody battle in a shopping mall follow one after another, and Chen Erpao's skill and hot blood are repeatedly stirred awake. Meanwhile, his former captain brings news of a mysterious organization, the "Dragon Group," pulling him back into head-on clashes with overseas gangs and reclusive martial arts masters, and a hidden story about a pirate king's treasure surfaces along the way. The novel melds campus life, military fervour, and espionage elements, unfolding with the brisk rhythm of "dragons and tigers battling, my hot blood dyeing the sky blue," and is one of the more representative long works in the male-oriented urban soldier-king genre.