Eight Tricks of the Thousand Gates

Born at the bottom of society in a small southern city, he grew up in a house with nothing, with a gambling-addicted father and a mother who died young. He learned to survive on the streets from an early age. Sharp-eyed and possessed of an extraordinary memory, he has an almost instinctive understanding of human nature. By chance, he picked up solid, if not top-tier, card-sharping skills and the street smarts to survive in the underworld.