Tales from the Roof Beams

This story is set in a mountain city in northwestern western Hunan in the early 1990s.

The protagonist is a gentleman thief.

His childhood was troubled, and like a rootless duckweed, he drifted from place to place.

He later strayed down the wrong path, yet even a thief has his code.

By day, he eats, drinks, and makes merry, befriends others and takes on apprentices, living freely and treating the world as a game.

Until...