There’s a knife above the word for gambling, and every cut can cost you your life.
My name is Zhuo Qiansheng, and I was born under the Nine Purple Li Fire fate.
The old blind fortune-teller declared: In years when fire is strong, I would either die or be maimed. Metal luck clashed with my fate, and in my zodiac year I was bound to face a deadly calamity, losing both my money and my life!
I refused to believe in fate. I honed my gambling tricks and made a name for myself at the tables with one signature skill.
But fate cannot be defied. Nine out of ten bets are lost, and everything I’d saved over a thousand days vanished in a single night.
Unwilling to accept defeat, I took a desperate gamble and borrowed from loan sharks, staking everything I had.
In the end, I won until I was penniless and buried in debt.
Only then did I finally realize that from beginning to end, it had all been a deadly trap laid by a master cheat.
With nowhere else to turn, I went back to the old blind man and asked him how to break the curse.
Three sticks of inauspicious incense, burning with the ends uneven, foretold an unrelenting disaster.
He charged me nothing. He only cut out a strange paper flower and told me to keep it close.
He said I could survive if I made it through my zodiac year, and that only one person in my family could use this flower.
I never understood what he meant, until New Year’s Eve, the final night of my zodiac year…
Black Shackles' new book, from Xiong Sanming to Xiong Jiudong, I look forward to his new work reaching even greater heights.
Black Shackles' writing style is still as captivating as ever, perfectly capturing the sense of destiny. It's not a mindless wish-fulfillment story; the protagonist, Zhuo Qiansheng, is both pitiful and ruthless. This kind of urban gangster novel is rare these days, so enjoy it while you can. Five stars.
All I can say is that anything produced by Brother Suo is guaranteed to be top-notch. I initially clicked on this from his homepage without realizing it was his work, but as I read on, the writing style felt so familiar. When I saw the author, I was stunned. Hurry up and update, bro!!! Some collaborations later on would be awesome!
It's still good, but the excitement starts later.
Haha, seeing my idol's new book getting similar treatment to mine on Tomato Bookstore makes me feel so balanced, it's hilarious! Hahahaha.
It's a very nice book. Why don't more people read it?
When I read this book for the first time, my first reaction was why I love to use the word hook as much as Black Shackles. Then I took a look at the author and realized that he is really a person. There is nothing wrong with that. It is worth reading slowly.
I've finished the trilogy, and I think this one is better than "The Eight Gates".
I'm really looking forward to a collaboration with all three films. A collaboration would be even more fun! 😏
Before I went there, I listened to the novels about "My Life as a Conman," and I never imagined that Jia Suo would actually write a novel on Tomato. Holy crap, is this a real person or a fake?