"A Thousand Doors of Past: Zimo's Gambit"
A Queen of Hearts with a missing corner has haunted Zimo for half his life.
When he was seven years old, he squatted in the alley and watched the old ghost come out, with the sweetness of fruit candies on his fingertips; when he was thirteen, his mother dragged out the wooden box from under the bed, which contained the "Notes from a Thousand Doors" left by his father.
He was once a "quick player" in an underground casino, able to change his opponent's trump cards with a flick of his fingertips, but he was pushed to the bottom by the person he trusted most in a game. On the verge of death, he saw his shadow opening his mouth in the water and swallowing the Queen of Hearts.
Three years later, he was lurking in Wangjiang Tower as a waiter. Outside the glass curtain wall of the revolving restaurant was half of the city that his father had won and lost back then. Boss Zhou's game of cards will never end, the legend of "Thousand Doors' Secret Key" is locked in the black suitcase, there is hidden hatred under Su Mei's tearful mole, and unburned fragments of the manuscript remain wherever the old ghost's crutch struck.
When the birthmark in the palmprint became hot, and when the missing corner of the Queen of Hearts oozed old blood, Zimo realized: The life of a cheater is never about winning money, but about breaking the game. Those conspiracies hidden in the sound of shuffling cards, those truths soaked in the river, and those grievances engraved on the cards will eventually be revealed by his own hands——
The last card, is it redemption or another reincarnation?
This is a story about a con man, but also a story about breaking away from fate. The card table is the arena, the fingertips are the sword, and the human heart is the most difficult card to calculate.
