The Thief of Beiyang: a Thumb Ring Disrupts the World

In the troubled times of Beiyang, the flags on the city walls changed every three days. Cao Shangfei, a gangster from the back alleys, only believed in one thing: the official bank account was more honest than their mouth. On the night of his mother's birthday, he sneaked into the Governor's Mansion, intending to steal the Qianlong jade ring to exchange for wealth and drink a bowl of bird's nest soup, but he took out a secret account of military pay from the fake ring. From then on, the female secretary Shen Yutang, the missing father, the old cases in the unpaid military camp, the bill number and the cargo station all pushed him to the edge of the knife. Cao Shangfei doesn't know how to fight, doesn't understand general principles, and is good at opening locks, climbing over walls, and joking at gunpoint. He relies on the cleverness of a small person to steal wealth, play tricks on warlords, save relatives and friends, solve puzzles, and pocket wealth, fame and love in dangerous situations. However, why is the wrench on the Overseer's hand? Whose family did the military pay that disappeared eighteen years ago fall into? When the Northern Storm sweeps across the world, can this little thief who only wants to make a fortune and support his mother keep his family and love, and transform from an abandoned piece on the chessboard of heroes to the hand that determines the fate of the times? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.