The God of Gambling Returns: A Web of Cards

Lu Qianying once thought he was a legend in the world of gambling. At twenty-one, he swept Las Vegas; at twenty-two, he earned the title of Asia's God of Gamblers. Until one rainy night, when his most trusted partner betrayed him in a million-dollar game, crushing him at the table and leaving his right hand crippled. He vanished from the scene after that.

Five years later, a mysterious game is brewing on the top floor of Macau's Golden Sparrow Casino.

"I hear you can see through every kind of cheating?" A woman in black silk gloves pushed five million in chips toward him.

Lu Qianying raised his newly restored left hand, cards fluttering at his fingertips like butterflies. He was back, not for revenge, but to find the five people who disappeared that night: five women whose fates were intertwined with his, each hiding secrets of her own. A cool-headed mathematical genius, a rebellious heir to a family of card cheats, a casino dealer who kept her true nature hidden, a mysterious psychologist, and his first love, who had betrayed him but left behind a riddle.

Beneath the card table, an ancient organization called the Card Shadow Society was quietly manipulating the lifeblood of gambling around the world. Its ultimate wager: the financial lifeline of all Asia...

From Macau's glittering casino halls to hidden gambling ships on the high seas, from the climactic showdown in Las Vegas to a life-or-death card game in Monte Carlo, Lu Qianying will use his penetrating insight into human nature and his remade hands to expose layer upon layer of deception with every turn of the cards, unfolding a legendary tale of trickery, desire, betrayal, and redemption.

Tonight, the God of Gamblers returns. Trickery is his blade, and human hearts are his cards.