Ultimate Soldier

Ultimate Soldier is an urban-life novel by web author Liu Mang Yu Er, serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network since 2014. The protagonist, Zhao Bing, has multiple identities: he was once the mysterious king of the international mercenary world, a supreme soldier-king of China in former days, and in his youth the most arrogant and domineering playboy of the Yanjing elite. At the story's opening, he hides his edge and lives quietly in the city, and by chance becomes the personal bodyguard of two beautiful women, once again drawn into conflict amid the neon and glamour of the modern city. The novel links its narrative through shifting identities, blending bodyguard duties, romantic entanglements, and family power struggles; the plot includes arranged marriages, the mystery of his special-forces identity, and national security missions, gradually revealing the power network of the Zhao family as a prominent Chinese clan and the protagonist's emotional ties with Wang Ruoyu, Chen Bing, and others. With urban life as its backdrop, the work interweaves personal destiny with duty to family and country, portraying the protagonist as he maneuvers among business empires, military secrets, and family ethics and remakes himself. At about 900,000 words, with a brisk pace and dense conflict, it is a typical "soldier-king returns to the city" web novel.