King of Ten Thousand Rings

The day he was tricked into becoming a slave laborer at a gold mine in Laos, Ye Fan had only half a pack of cigarettes in his pocket.

A cave-in buried seven of his coworkers alive. He crawled into an abandoned mine tunnel in search of a way out and pulled a black copper ring from the finger bone of a mummified corpse.

The ring eats gold.

Gold, gems, it devours them all. The more it consumes, the stronger he becomes: eyes that can see through rock, strength enough to shatter stone with his bare hands, and movements that turn him invisible at night. He robs the mine's safe, frees every slave laborer, and burns the man-eating gold mine to the ground.

From then on, his path leads through Bangkok's black markets, the gambling dens of Sihanoukville, and Myanmar's Shan State, leaving a mountain of corpses behind. He rises from a laborer who could barely afford a meal to a tycoon worth billions, known throughout Southeast Asia's underworld as