When I was thirty years old, I was forced to get married and stood at a crossroads in my life - on one side was the hard-working life in Fuzhou, on the other was my parents' desire to start a family, and on the other was the girl for whom I couldn't tell whether it was responsibility or passion. The moment I started writing my resume, the past years came flooding back: regret, pain, joy, anger, and those experiences wandering on the edge of gray came to my mind instantly.
I decided to write these real experiences into a novel. In the book, there are the masters who led me into the industry, the con man who set up the trap, the calculations behind the programmer, the traps on the card table, the money that comes and goes quickly, and the regret and growth of making a wrong step.
There is no deliberate exaggeration of loyalty, only the most real human hearts and desires; there are no fictional legends, only real life lessons. I only hope that every reader can be warned: Stay away from gambling, cherish your feelings, keep your heart, and don't let temporary greed and confusion waste the years to come.
