Gambling is different from everything else.
It’s not about losing and wanting to win your money back. It’s about that feeling after you win: your heart lodged in your throat, every drop of blood in your body seeming to stop as you wait for the card to turn over. Nothing feels better.
Ouyang Longzi tasted it once, and could never quit.
He started gambling with five hundred yuan. Then he lost his job, his girlfriend, and his parents’ retirement savings. His friends and relatives began avoiding him. His father lay in a hospital bed and told him, “You can’t quit.”
The night his father died, he was placing a bet. The phone rang four times. He didn’t answer.
Later, he fled to the mountains, where he kept watch over an empty house, a notebook, and a line of crooked handwriting.
Everyone said he couldn’t quit. For a while, he believed them.
But this time, he wants to win back what he lost: not money, but his life.
This is the first time I have read a novel with gambling as the theme. The writing style is extremely realistic, abandoning deliberate sensationalism and unnecessary emotional exaggeration, and only uses an almost naked and straightforward narrative, but it directly touches people's hearts. In particular, it depicts the whole process from when the male protagonist Ouyang Longzi enters the gambling game, from dabbling in it, to becoming addicted step by step, and finally leading to betrayal and separation. The ups and downs are heart-breaking to watch, and it vividly shows the truth that gambling ruins life. I was deeply moved after reading it. It is not only a good-looking novel, but also a thought-provoking practical lesson. It is worth reading carefully!
The themes are realistic and always very poignant. The characters are three-dimensional and the plot is quite in-depth. It is worth reading.
Every incident in the novel has a beginning and an end, and is resolved thoroughly without leaving the subject behind. It is very comfortable to read.
The worldview setting is novel, has its own logical closed loop, and is not very complicated.
The characters are created very successfully, the plot has ups and downs, and the writing is beautiful!
It seems pretty good so far, I hope it won't collapse in the future, come on, author!
The author's writing is excellent, and the plot has ups and downs. It's very good! I tied it in one go. It's rare to find such a beautiful book!
The author just calmly tells a story about redemption, which makes it easier to move people.
I love this kind of story about winning back myself more than those counterattack stories about pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
Guarding a room in an empty mountain and slowly making peace with oneself, this kind of quiet healing is more touching than the vigorous redemption.