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The Hidden Secrets of the World 天下藏局
[Wuxia World + Antiques Appraisal + Tomb Raiding] I never went to school as a child. Instead, I spent ten years learning the trade from a beautiful woman. Over those ten years, she forged me a pair of “Ghost Eyes” that could identify every rare treasure in the world. She trained my hands into “Buddha’s Hands,” teaching me to break traps and set schemes with impunity. And she taught me a repertoire of “divine skills” that let me navigate the shifting world of the martial underworld with ease. Dra
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- 2 The Art of Deception! 千术！ As the saying goes, nine out of ten gamblers lose. You'll never see the knives hidden behind the gambling table! I have a plain name: Niu Tiezhu. Of course, you can also call me... A-Yao. 23.6kReads9.0Score2.3kShelves
- 3 My Years as a Con Artist 我做老千的那些年 The short drama adaptation of the Old Cheater series is now streaming on Red Fruit and Tomato. Come check it out! I'm a professional gambler. At the table, I can turn the odds on their head. But I want to use my own experience to tell you a simple truth: stay away from gambling. Because nine out of ten games are rigged, and you lose every time! 454kReads9.5Score47.1kShelves
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My Casino's Golden Eyes Can See the End of All Life 我的赌场金瞳，能见众生末路
I’m Zhao Fan. I make my living in casinos, with a pair of eyes that can see through fate. But who knew this wasn’t some divine power? It was nothing but a shackle, one that bore the weight of human hearts and human nature. After spending enough time around gambling, I came to understand: Nine out of ten games are rigged, and every gambler loses in the end. Stay away from gambling. The moment you sit at the table, you’re taking the first step toward ruin. You’re after money, but everyone else is
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The Swindler: Through Fire and Water for You, Uncle! 老千：赴汤蹈火啊，二叔！
If you learn the art of cheating, you’ll see me as a mayfly sees the heavens. My name is Feng Shiqi, a veteran swindler who came out of the mountains. PS: The best quit-gambling novel on the whole internet, and the most wholesome swindler story online. ⚠️ Don’t open it at night, or you won’t be able to sleep.
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The Cardsharp: Back to the Underworld 老千：重返江湖
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- 7 The Fall of the Thousand Sects 陨落千门 By the time you read this, I'll already be dead. (How can you be sure I'm the one who died?) My hands and feet were severed, leaving me a gruesome sight. I spent my whole life setting people up, only to fall victim to my own schemes! I should never have joined the Thousand Doors or taken the gambling road. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have met my end at the hands of the Thousand Doors. This is a warning to everyone: stay away from gambling. The Thousand Doors are full of tricks. Nine times out of ten 139Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Thousand Gates: A Thief Has His Code 千门：盗亦有道 [No System, Ruthless, High-IQ, Mind-Bending, Not Your Traditional Power Fantasy] I was born into the world of con artists and raised among thieves. I’m not only a top professional cardsharp, but also a “high buyer” in the thieves’ underworld. At the gambling table, I can turn the tide with a flick of my hand. Away from it, I move through all kinds of circles. I’ll use my own experiences to tell you this: never gamble, and never get involved in a rigged game. Because every bet ends in a loss, and 754Reads7.2Score—Shelves
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Learning Feng Shui from Third Grandpa 跟着三爷爷学风水
Born into a family of Feng Shui practitioners, I became someone who defies fate the moment I entered the world of Yin-Yang Feng Shui. As one strange event after another unfolded, I learned to recognize fortune and misfortune, ward off disaster, and handle everything with ease. To all the brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunties passing by, please leave a book review here! Remember to comment, too! Thank you! If you like learning, remember to bring your brain along. There’s plenty of useful informa
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The Dashing Gambler 风流赌神
Synopsis: [Not a System novel, please don't complain if it's not for you] [High-stakes gambling] [Stories from the bathhouse] [Everyday scams and fraud] [Male lead grows from weak to strong + gives back to society] Chen Zhongchuan is an abandoned orphan, raised by his grandfather from childhood. When he boards the train to Nanshan, his grandfather tells him the truth... This book explores gambling and the many scams found in real life, warning readers to stay away from gambling. At best, it can
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Tales of a Con Artist 老千故事
Su Qing challenges the legendary gambler Mei Luo, hoping to avoid falling into someone else's trap. But her actions lead to her father's tragic death, and Su Qing herself is left in grave danger. After repeatedly risking her life, she sees the good and evil, and the injustices, in the world. To survive and avenge her father, Su Qing pushes herself to the limit again and again, ultimately escaping death by a hair.
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- 12 My Life as a Gambler III 我的老千生涯III Teng Fei no longer explains the tricks used to cheat at the gambling table as an onlooker. Instead, as the “mastermind,” he recounts how he himself set up marks to fleece them, giving us a “live demonstration” of the scams cheats routinely pull. Cheats know how to exploit people's greed, making them lose their judgment one step at a time. In Teng Fei's stories, the victims, Chuanyong, Bao Hai, and Yang Tao, are all shrewd people. Yet the cheats' carefully laid plans still trap them, leaving them 1.4kReads9.3Score204Shelves
- 13 Ghost Hand Chen: The Eight-Gate Lockdown 鬼手陈：八门锁局 Every gambler has three defining traits: First, they’re lazy and gluttonous, dreaming of getting rich overnight. Second, they think they’re clever and see everyone else as an idiot. Third, they’re missing a screw and never consider the consequences. Third Master Chen makes a living fleecing people like that... 23.9kReads9.1Score1.8kShelves
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Those Years I Spent Running with the Wrong Crowd 我混社会那一些年
As you wander the martial world, what kind of cunning, scheming, and vision do you need? As a child, I feared ghosts because they were hideous and terrifying. As an adult, I fear people because they look so respectable. This story is a reminder to everyone: Nine out of ten gambling games are rigged. The only way to win is not to gamble!
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- 15 The Eight Masters of the Qianmen School 千门八将 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3.9kReads8.9Score280Shelves
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One Gamble for the Thrill 一赌为快
A casino-boat dealer is drawn into chaos by the lure of money. After he's caught cheating, he escapes the gambling boat and drifts across a desolate sea... Seeking revenge, love, friendship, and family, he embarks on an extraordinary path. What awaits him in the future? This is the story of young Fu Ming's journey from a naive boy into a true man, exploring responsibility, relationships, human nature, and his clashes with other powerful figures. Its vivid cast will draw you in. When I talk about
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- 17 My Life in the World of High-Stakes Gambling 我的老千江湖 [Based on a lifetime of gambling experience, revealing the secrets behind a hundred cheating techniques] I grew up in casinos. In the noisy halls, the lure of money blinded people to everything else: cheating, feuds, traps... They sank deeper and deeper into gambling, losing everything they owned, destroying their families, and plunging toward the abyss! After years of rising and falling, I became a professional cheat-catcher, feared throughout the gambling world! In this seemingly glamorous wor 2.3kReads8.8Score197Shelves
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Peerless Divine Doctor: The Good-for-Nothing Young Lady Defies Heaven 绝世神医:废材小姐要逆天
She transmigrated into the body of a cultivation washout. No big deal: she subdued an ancient spirit beast with a single move. No big deal: one glance left a ruthless prince smitten. Oh no! Better run… “Your Highness, something terrible has happened! The lady you like can cultivate now!” The prince’s lips curled up. “Just as I expected.” “Your Highness, something terrible has happened! The lady you like was thrown out of the Qu household by Madam Qu!” The prince said calmly, “She’ll handle it he
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- 19 The Divine Phoenix Returns: The Ninth Young Lady, a Heaven-Defying Cursed Genius 神凰归来：废材逆天九小姐 [Good-for-nothing rises to greatness, strong heroine, transmigration, play the pig to eat the tiger, genius, divine physician, legitimate daughter, sweet romance, secret identity] Beiming Jiuyou, the Canglan Empire’s number-one good-for-nothing playboy, has no father’s affection or mother’s love. Framed by others, she dies while trying to protect her chastity. When she opens her eyes again, a top agent from the twenty-second century has returned with a vengeance! From good-for-nothing to genius, 2.4kReads7.7Score244Shelves
- 20 The Useless One Defies the Heavens: The Emperor Dotes on His Dark, Poisonous Little Consort 废材逆天：帝君嗜宠腹黑小毒妃 [Genius + pocket dimension + secret identities + divine beasts + strong heroine + leveling-up and monster-slaying] She was the heir to a medical and poison-crafting family in the modern world, gifted beyond compare and unmatched in both arts. Betrayed in an instant, her soul transmigrated to another world. She became a useless good-for-nothing whom everyone despised, unable to cultivate. Can't cultivate? A useless good-for-nothing? Just watch her claim treasures, pick up adorable spirit beasts, 3kReads9.0Score361Shelves
- 21 The Abandoned Divine Doctor: The Good-for-Nothing Miss Shakes the Nine Heavens 神医弃女：废柴小姐轰动九天 Her birth parents despised her from the moment she was born. Then her own sister stole her destiny and her phoenix essence, and burned her to ashes. Fortunately, a genius physician from the 21st century was reborn in the flames and returned in spectacular fashion. A good-for-nothing? With one hand, she wields supernatural powers to kill without a trace; with the other, her medical skills can bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bone. She also has the rare gift of unlimited summoning, 343Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 22 Refine Divine Pills! Command Divine Beasts! The Good-for-Nothing Young Lady Is Actually an Unparalleled Empress 炼神丹！御神兽！废柴大小姐竟是绝世帝女 [Everyone’s darling + two powerful leads + beast taming + pocket dimension + inheritance of the Imperial Daughter] Ye Ranyin, the most feared mercenary of the 21st century, known as the Night God! In a single moment, she transmigrates into the body of a good-for-nothing scorned in a border town! Her fiancé’s family comes to break off the engagement? Her own clan treats her as a pawn to be discarded? The next moment, she is welcomed back to the imperial capital and becomes the only beloved young 54.5kReads9.4Score7.5kShelves
- 23 The Evil Emperor's Clingy Wife: The Divine Doctor's Nine Daughters 邪帝缠宠：神医九小姐 Jun Jiu, a peerless healer of Huaxia, is equally skilled in medicine and poison. She transmigrates and finds herself in the body of a useless young lady whom anyone can bully. Useless? She's an expert at crushing scum and face-slapping! She can whip up divine-grade pills at will, command divine beasts, and marry the Evil Emperor! So who exactly is the useless one? Mo Wuyue: “I swear on the blood from my heart that everything I have belongs to you. If you still don't love me, I'll spend all my ti 8.9kReads9.2Score1.1kShelves
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The Cheat's Underworld 老千蓝道
Trained in the Southern School, with knowledge of both Chinese and Western methods. This is my true account of years spent as a professional swindler! Using all kinds of cheating techniques, I’ve fought my way through casinos large and small across the land. Burning with ambition, I clawed my way upward, enduring the hardships of the underworld and a life of wandering with no way back! Schemes within schemes, tricks within tricks, and all kinds of dark and shady memories: I’ll expose every techn
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The Scoundrel Immortal's Eight Gates and Generals 贱仙千门八将
[Comedy + Fortune-telling + Sleazy antics + Con artist + Flashy face-slapping + Demon-catching + Ghost-slaying + Cunning schemes + Outrageous stunts + Memorable one-liners] Wu Xuanye, Blue Star’s “Prince of Trash Talk,” stays up all night in a fierce battle and transmigrates into the cultivation world, where he becomes “Wu the Half-Immortal,” a third-level Qi Refining cultivator from Backing Mountain Village. Armed with an ancestral tortoiseshell that works only some of the time, and carrying a
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- 26 Even a Swindler Has a Code 老千亦有道 [Gambling tricks + the underworld + multiple female leads + setting traps + breaking traps] Wu Qi is a seven-year-old orphan who catches the eye of Hong Liuzhi, the gambling king known in the underworld as Ghost Hand Hears Heaven. Hong takes him on as his last disciple, teaching him six great gambling techniques, including the Cloud-Shadow Illusion Hand and Dice by Sound. Starting out as a street kid in the Dark Star Pavilion, Wu Qi follows his master's teaching, “Gambling has its own way, and t 1Reads6.9Score—Shelves
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The Strongest Outsiders of the Martial World 最强江湖外八行
When the Qianmen rise in anger, the jianghu falls into chaos. Without conflict, there can be no Qianmen. If conflict rises again, the Qianmen will surely take the helm of the jianghu, restore order, and put an end to the fighting! When I was little, my grandfather read my fortune and said I was destined to “ride the wind to success.” After he died, I inherited his hardware store. Only when a beautiful woman came knocking did I learn that I was the heir to the Qianmen, a legendary jianghu school
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- 28 My Years Catching Cheaters at Cards 我抓老千的那些年 In gambling, deception, conflict, and traps cost more than just money. They can take away time, family bonds, humanity, and all the beautiful things we mourn losing. 210Reads8.3Score—Shelves
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The Thousand Gates Saga Continues: After Chu Liu 千门未了：初六之后
Important Announcement: Now that Teacher Ma Xiaohu has resumed updating, I won't presume to teach my grandmother to suck eggs. I only regretted the hiatus and wanted to chat with fellow Qian fans. Starting today, I will stop updating permanently. Anyone who wants to discuss the continuation of my story or the plot of Old Qian is welcome to join the group. Next month, I will take this book down. The unpublished content will stay buried in my gut. I'll write a new book called Midnight, with an up
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- 30 My Life in the Underworld of Cardsharps: Unstoppable 我的老千江湖之所向披靡 A showdown between professional cardsharps isn't just about winning or losing. It can mean the difference between life and death. My name is Lin Lingdong. I'm a professional cardsharp and a powerful gang boss who commands respect throughout the underworld. As the saying goes, one thought can lead to heaven, another to hell. The underworld is a place where the strong prey on the weak, and in the world of cardsharps, you can get rich overnight or lose everything just as fast. Where do we go from h 3.9kReads8.2Score186Shelves
- 31 The Rise of a Northeast China Cardsharp 东北老千成长之路 The story of a young cardsharp from the Northeast countryside who fights his way to success, making his way from rural gambling games to the ups and downs of the big city. It exposes the harms of gambling: nine out of ten games are scams. Stay away from gambling. 2.2kReads7.1Score105Shelves
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The Winners' Club 赢家俱乐部
He can predict the outcome of a match with near-perfect accuracy. But if the stake is your conscience, would you still place a bet? A born cardsharp, the likes of whom appear only once in a thousand years, spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the crimes he committed before becoming a crime boss. Does that make him a good person? A group of nobodies, caught up in gambling and the underworld, find the good and evil in human nature magnified. How should they choose, how should they liv
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The Foolish Master in the City 傻子高手在都市
The city is full of tricks. I’m going back to the countryside. Silly Long has been a bit slow since he was a child. But he knows the martial arts of the Meihua school, as well as divination, Shennong medicine, geomancy, cultivation and breath control, and physiognomy. With all that, he’s made quite a name for himself in the city…
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1995: The Underworld of a Thousand Doors 一九九五，千门江湖
Memoirs of an Old Cardsharp: 1995–2015 More than card tricks, this is the underworld My name is Lin Tianfeng. I'm an old cardsharp... I started learning card tricks in elementary school. This craft brought me into the orbit of powerful people, and that's what kept me alive. From an innocent boy in an arcade to a feared figure in international casinos From a reckless street tough to an underworld kingpin in the Golden Triangle In eighteen years, I traveled a road that takes others s
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A Book Above the Clouds 云上的一本书
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The Thief's Way 贼道
My name is Xiao Wu. I was a wild child no orphanage could keep in check. At nine years old, I charged into this dog-eat-dog world. I saw through it then: living was like clinging to a moving train. You either held on or fell and were crushed to pieces. The first steamed bun I stole wasn’t because I was hungry. I wanted to see whether these hands that picked pockets could grab fate by the throat. The juvenile detention center, the shelter, and the detention center were my schools. The thieves wer
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- 37 The First Book by Jianghu Laoliu 江湖老六的第1本书 Stay away from gambling, or you’ll ruin your family. This book exposes all kinds of cheating tricks at the gambling table and reveals one rigged scam after another. Nine out of ten gamblers lose. The underworld isn’t just about fighting and killing; it’s about human relationships and social savvy! 2.6kReads9.1Score268Shelves
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The Last Emperor of the Shang Dynasty 殇朝末帝
The Empress Dowager seizes power, her relatives meddle in government, princes rebel, eunuchs wreak havoc, barbarians invade, the people suffer, and the common folk rise up… The Great Zhou dynasty is a pot of Eight-Treasure Congee boiling over with chaos! Oh no, I’ve wet myself again! Your Majesty, don’t cry. There’s nothing to be afraid of! Reborn for a second life, I’m the last emperor, and the nation is on the verge of collapse. I have to find a way out… After finally setting the Great Zhou dy
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- 39 Yifan Is Anything but Ordinary 一凡不凡 My new work is out! Welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 The Crime of Love 爱的罪行 The son of a drug dealer and the daughter of a police officer grow up happily, unaware of the truth! As the truth slowly comes to light, what kind of story will emerge from their tangled love and hatred? A crime born of love... 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Thousand Paths 千人有道
[Modern underworld] [Stories of crooked gambling] [Gambling scams] [Anti-gambling] When I was six, my grandaunt said I was doomed to a life of loneliness. She sold me. She sold me to an old man who had lost one hand. An old man who made his living as a swindler. From then on, I learned how to cheat at gambling from him. The old man became my master, but he told me to call him Fourth Master. I became a professional swindler, too. But on the day I graduated from my apprenticeship, Fourth Master di
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The King of Con Artists 千门魁首大老千
I mastered the Golden Eye. No matter who you are, if you cheat, I'll see right through you. I can set up an immortal's trap. Once I've got my eye on you, you'll have no choice but to go bankrupt. When I became the leader of the gambling world and people hailed me as the greatest cheat of all... After a life of ups and downs and countless wounds, I finally understood: there's always someone better, and the only way to win is not to gamble.
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- 43 King of Gambling 赌王 Macau, a city where gambling is legal. You think gambling is all about luck? Actually, it isn't. Skill, probability, cheating… Often, a game is already decided before it even begins. And that means one thing: you lose! Anyone who comes here and gets hooked on gambling will never get back on their feet! Gambling isn't a game for ordinary people to dabble in. In the hands of those with an agenda, it's a blade that kills without drawing blood! 11.9kReads8.8Score1.1kShelves
- 44 A Life of Gambling 赌涯人生 I'm a card cheat! Behind the seemingly glamorous card tables lies a world of knives and swords, where every step could be deadly. I thought I'd learned how to rig the game and deceive others, but I never realized that perhaps I was just a pawn on someone else's board. 343Reads9.0Score130Shelves
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Making a Living on the Side in Australia 我在澳洲捞偏门
This story is based on real events. I came to Australia with a dream of studying abroad, only to be driven to the brink by reality. From a lowly street-level smuggler to a force to be reckoned with, commanding the underworld and crossing the world, I paved my way to power with cunning and bloodshed. Only when I stood at the summit and looked back did I realize that the most dangerous gamble of all is the one you make with human nature. This is a road with no turning back, but who knows which cor
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Zero-Degree Showdown: Operation Blue Arrow 零度交锋：蓝捷行动
[Mystery and Suspense] [Espionage] [Crime Investigation] [Modern Urban] [Genius] [Strong Female Lead] [National Security] Twenty-three years ago, a separation tore the lives of twin sisters apart. The younger sister was trained by an overseas spy organization to become an elite agent. Sent back to China, she is ordered to assassinate her own sister, take her place, infiltrate Lanjie Communications, and steal the core secret, “Lanjie 9.” Caught between her mission and her organization's orders on
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- 47 Urban Cultivation: My Gorgeous Campus Belle 都市修仙之我的绝色校花 To cover my tuition, I take a high-paying job from campus beauty Chu Yuyan: pretend to be her boyfriend and fend off her many admirers. I think I’m just there to act as a shield, but she doesn’t know that I inherited an ancient immortal legacy. I’m the only cultivator in this city. A bothersome rich kid? One spell, and his family is bankrupt. An arrogant martial arts prodigy? One finger technique, and thirty years of training go up in smoke. I only wanted to cultivate in peace, but trouble keeps 2Reads—Score—Shelves
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The Con Game 局骗
I’m a liar. The kind of liar who deceives even his own people. I thought I could set anyone up. Only in the end did I realize that I, too, was just a piece in someone else’s game. Friends? Teammates? Even family? What difference does it make? Once, he considered Eighth Master the closest thing he had to family. But in the end, wasn’t he still...
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