In the casinos of Macau, a legend is always told: every big shot who made his fortune as a VIP-room chip runner eventually met one of three ends: prison, a violent death on the streets, or vanishing without a trace.
Wu Wei was the exception. Wielding a bone cleaver, he carved his way from Sham Shui Po to Manila, and from the VIP rooms of the Lisboa Casino to an empire built on casino chips.
Known as Street Market Wei, Wu Wei was Stanley Ho's discreet fixer by night and the money man behind Broken Tooth K. He built a machine of chip runners, then cleaned up his act before the authorities closed in.
The prison doors opened again and again, but it was other people who went inside. In the end, it was the iron bar in the hands of someone close to him that brought him down.
Three decades of fortunes and feuds in the gambling city: money can be cleaned, but people cannot.
