In the year of Gengzi, the Qing dynasty nears its end, and strange happenings run rampant throughout the martial world. Lin Yue, an orphan born with six fingers, crawls out of a heap of corpses and is taken in as the final disciple of the blind cardsharp known as Ghost Sees Sorrow. He does not learn how to win money, only how to "lose his life." At the Crow Market in Baoding Prefecture and the sleepless harbor of Tianjin, Lin Yue uses his six-fingered intuition and uncanny grasp of psychology to set one deadly trap after another, where losing is how he wins. From swapping out opium to outplaying foreign trading-house compradors, from assassinating corrupt officials to manipulating warlord clashes, every game he wins costs him a little of his lifespan. Only when he finally reaches the pinnacle of power does he discover that the whole world is nothing more than a great gamble played by the gods. Lin Yue must not only survive this endgame, but also use himself as bait to draw out the "flag-bearer" manipulating the chaotic age. This is a hard-edged tale of survival at the bottom, high-IQ battles of wits, and the fate of a turbulent era.
It looks pretty cool. You would be more comfortable if you filmed it as a short drama.