Humans are social animals. When you accept a gift from the High Table, you must provide your services. This is the social contract.

Looking at those glorious names, each one represents a glorious past. However, time has passed, and the High Table remains. But these names are either on wanted lists or in cemeteries.

So, when I came into this world, I swore that I would never be a killer. Otherwise, one day, someone might kill me for a dog.

Only in the corner where the high table doesn't matter.

Only then can I successfully survive in this world full of calculations. Remember: only the dead are reliable.

So, I will move about the world as a scavenger, offering my loyalty, and I will obey if you require, and I will continue to obey.

So said the famous good fellow, the street sweeper who charged the highest price.

Reborn

I'm happy with the transformation into capital, but the primary issue is getting out of the police station.

......

Hollywood godfather? Internet king? Tech tycoon? New energy leader?

This is not what I want.

Howard Hughes' successor, Hugh Hefner's successor?

No, I am who I am.

Ernst Garfield.

This America is a little different! Please go home after dark, otherwise you may encounter on the street - remote rural chainsaw killers, non-existent wax museums, mysterious cabins in the woods, Stranger Things, Immortal Jason, Uncle Max in the Moonlight, Little Ugly Stories on the Town, Witches' Coven, Exorcist, Nightmare Freddy, Dead Silence Cursed Puppet, Monster in the Mist, Deep Sea Lighthouse, Containment.

...And Wang Lin woke up to become a priest in the church. Relying on the face that can continuously upgrade his proficiency, he went deep into the community to save the people of North America from dire straits. From [psychological counseling] for family condolences to [soul penetration] that can see through the weaknesses of the devil.

Ning Shu arrives in a parallel world, America, inheriting a farm and eight million US dollars in debt left to him by his father, Runren. Intending to simply relax and do nothing, he unexpectedly discovers he has awakened druidic abilities, with maxed-out affinity for plants and animals. A clearing crew arrives with bulldozers, ready to force their way in, but a vast forest has already sprung up around the farm. "Where are the American environmental organizations and media?" A large group of reporters and staff quickly emerge. Some attempt to break in with guns, but a large number of endangered animals have already been deployed near the farm. When they point their guns at the animals blocking their way, Ning Shu declares, "Call the animal protection organizations here. We've already taken photos as evidence." He intends to use magic to defeat magic. Years later, he becomes America's largest agricultural exporter. Looking at his former agent, who once tried to assassinate him, he says, "Mr. Smith, you..."

Location: San Francisco Time: 1924… He could load a Winchester lever-action rifle with one hand. He was an expert in American Iaijutsu. His Mozambique shooting was simply divine. He could deflect oncoming bullets with a Qi-style scalpel. He instilled deep fear in thugs. …This was an era of extravagance, an era of jazz, an era of Prohibition, an era of suit-wearing thugs, an era of ambitious men, an era of Li Yu. …“Young men, remember this! Never mess with a Chinese man wearing a long black overcoat and a black suit, with an M1911 pistol on his left leg and under his right arm, a Winchester lever-action rifle in his left hand, and a Qi-style scalpel in his right! He is ‘Like a Dragon’!” “Why is he called ‘Like a Dragon’?” “Because he can single-handedly destroy a Mafia family! He’s simply…”

He has received the most gorgeous compliments and the most vicious curse words.

He is a guy with unruly blood flowing through every vein in his body.

He's a white kid who will never become a celebrity.

He is a young man from the countryside in the eyes of the public.

He's Tommy Hawke.

He was born again.

Welcome to a story that tells the American Dream in the first half and the American Nightmare in the second half.

Let us invite Tommy Hawke to appear in the winter of 2022.

In 1920, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—Prohibition—officially took effect. Jesse Lindsay, transported to Chicago, built his "beverage" business during the Roaring Twenties. At that time, Al Capone, the underground emperor, was just taking his first steps towards dominating Chicago. As the iron fist of the Great Depression slammed into the bubble of false prosperity, Jesse Lindsay's name had already resounded throughout North America!

In 1883, on the blood-and-fire western frontier, the Dutton family embarked on a westward journey: veteran James protected his family, rebellious daughter Elsa sought freedom, and precocious teenager Tom tamed the fierce green mule "Loach," struggling to survive amidst bandit raids and the desolate wilderness. Armed with covered wagons and lever-action rifles, they enforced an ironclad law between gallows-lined towns and vast grasslands: tame the wilderness or be devoured by it.

[Civil War] [Business War] [Calm and Decisive] [Gilded Age] [Technological Explosion]

Alan, a business elite, died in a car accident under a heavy truck, but his soul accidentally traveled to New York in 1860 and became a 19-year-old Irish youth with nothing.

With only $75 in his pocket, he built a canning factory from scratch using modern business thinking, expanding it to become a company. During the turbulent years of the Civil War, his assets soared thanks to precise planning.

With the advent of the Gilded Age, he expanded into oil, steel, military industry, railroads, and even ventured into media, real estate, electrical technology, and the hotel industry. From a contemporary elite to a 19th-century pauper, how did he create a multi-faceted, top-tier family tycoon in America a century ago?