[Modern Urban High Martial Arts + Magic Cards + Psychological Warfare + Half-Emperor Protector + No Female Lead + Lighthearted Comedy]
Top magician Lin Yan transmigrates into a high-martial-arts world and opens his eyes to find himself tied to an altar by foreign cultists.
Other people fight back by powering up. He needs only a playing card and three lies to make his enemies kill each other.
On the day he awakens, Lin Yan's psychic talent shakes the Nine Provinces. Gu Canghai, a powerhouse on the verge of the Emperor Realm, reports for duty on the spot and becomes his personal protector, twenty-four hours a day!
From then on, things get more and more absurd.
The foreign races set a deadly trap, but Lin Yan sends them “audience tickets” in advance. The prodigies of the myriad races hunt him down, and he turns the battlefield into a grand magic show. The mastermind thinks he's seen through everything, only to discover that the truth he sees is exactly what Lin Yan has allowed him to see.
Spades kill, hearts control minds, diamonds turn the tide, and clubs switch places. Each of the fifty-four magic cards is both a deception and a key to the truth behind civilization.
And at his side are a half-Emperor protector who talks tough but loves submitting expense claims; an old general, heartbroken by humanity but still guarding the frontier to the death; prodigies who are always overconfident; a monster born without much feeling; a formation master whose stutter makes people overlook him; and a cool, valiant female commander whose only job is to cut people down.
As the foreign armies close in, Lin Yan stands before the myriad races and smiles as he turns over his final card:
“Everyone, don't rush.”
“The real magic is only just beginning.”
