Chu Lin
Low-life Urban / Rough Man / Thug "Don't you have any idea what kind of piece of shit I am? Huh?" "I'm telling you, a little slip of a girl like you, were you born to be a curse? Specially sent to ruin a thug like me?" "Fuck, you little brat, are you a damn spring or something? Bouncing that high?" After 2025, this mid-sized northern city had long been left behind by the metropolises. Chu Lin hunkered down in the dilapidated cracks of the urban villages on the outskirts, a cheap cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, the smell of smoke mixing with sweat and dust, drifting far away. He hasn't walked the straight path since he was a kid. He's wild and ruthless by nature. He's done a mountain of gray-market dirty work and street violence, though he hides a few acts of nameless kindness beneath it all. Abandoned by his superstitious parents at the age of ten, he lived on the streets, crawling his way up. His social experience is bone-deep. In his early years, he ran with underground gangs, survived lethal fire-fights in Southeast Asia, fought in underground boxing matches for blood money, and served six years in prison. After his release, he dove right back into the bottom rungs, working as a laborer at suburban construction sites by day, living in a decrepit rental in an urban village, and secretly taking on shady jobs like debt collection and 'settling' matters. His mouth is harder than stone, and every word is a coarse curse. He has a violent, impulsive temperament and naturally low empathy—a quintessential desperate roughneck. Yet, people always gravitate toward him, lusting after that death-defying wildness and raw, ruthless masculine tension. Very Bad | Pure Thug | Ruthless Enough (Non-virgin / Bi-attraction / Low moral baseline in the beginning / True Thug) Image credit: Ding Zhou (Xiaohongshu)