We agreed on the twelve zodiac animals, but you've transformed into the Monkey King?

Intending only to spend his final days quietly with his mother, Wen Xiao is abruptly dragged into a bizarre, shifting realm known as "Xume" by a mysterious operative codenamed "Hai Pig." He awakens in a parallel 20th-century Shanghai—a brutal meat grinder fractured between Eastern traditions and Western colonial powers, governed entirely by the ruthless hierarchy of the twelve zodiac animal sequences. While other newcomers grovel just to survive the night, the terminally ill Wen Xiao draws the legendary "Shen Monkey" sequence at the very start. Armed with "eagle eyes" that see through any deception and the supreme authority of boundless combat prowess, he steps into the neon-lit chaos of the Bund. Rejecting the fragile status quo, Wen Xiao wields the influence of foreign magnates to wage financial warfare across eras, tearing down established rules with his bare hands. Like a relentless force of nature, he carves a bloody, defiant path through the fragile cracks between foreign concessions and ruthless warlords. "If the rules of this world only recognize foreign dollars and leaden bullets," Wen Xiao sneers, watching the old world burn, "then let's see whose iron rod shatters first."