Any Novels About Swindlers and Underworld Bosses in the 1990s? 有没有老千，一哥这样90年代左右江湖的书
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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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- 2 A Book by Black Shackles 黑色枷锁的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 3.1kReads9.1Score24314d adds
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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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- 4 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. 23.6kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
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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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I'm the Only Living Person in This Apartment Building 我住的这栋公寓，只有我是活人
I'm the only living person in the apartment building where I live.
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- 7 Living Sacrifice 活人祭祀 Living Sacrifice 1.8kReads—Score—14d adds
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The Number One Brother 一哥
The short drama A Brother is now streaming on Hongguo, with a surprise in store! I used to be a gang boss. Now I’m just a food delivery rider. Ever since I could remember, my father, a former soldier, had been a drunk with a nasty temper. Whenever he got drunk, he liked to beat my mother, often leaving her black and blue. Later, my parents divorced, and while trying to earn money for tuition, I went astray! I had no choice back then. Now, I just want to be a good person!
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The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Northern School 北派盗墓笔记
[Published in print and available online] [The Beipai Notes horizontal-screen drama is now streaming] [Tomb Raiding + Mystery + Antiques] I'm a poor kid from a mountain village in Northeast China. In the early twenty-first century, hoping to make something of myself, I joined a northern tomb-raiding crew. From south to north, I've seen every side of the underworld and crossed paths with people from all walks of life. Over the years, I went from a young man to a middle-aged one. My drinking got b
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- 10 Flawless Blood Jade 血玉无瑕 One cut can leave you broke, the next can make you rich; one cut can have you wearing sackcloth! Those words capture all the vicissitudes and legends of the jade gambling world. I got into jade gambling because of my third uncle. I hate him, but I'm grateful to him too. 65Reads8.8Score—14d adds
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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!
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- 12 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! 11.9kReads8.8Score1.1k14d adds
- 13 The Cardsharp: Back to the Underworld 老千：重返江湖 11.5kReads9.0Score96614d adds
- 14 A Book by Yan Yu Ru Xi 烟雨如昔的一本书 A new story is out! You can read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support is what keeps me writing, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
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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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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!
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- 17 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... 23.9kReads9.1Score1.8k14d adds
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The Great Dao Gives Rise to Eternity 大道衍万古
What is fate? Is it decided by Heaven, or by me? Lin Mo is an ordinary young man who sets out on the uncertain path to immortality to save his loved ones. He has neither an heaven-defying spiritual root nor a powerful cultivator possessing his body. His only asset is a damaged Dao Disc that can “analyze” and “simulate” everything in the world. It can simulate the flaws in cultivation techniques, analyze the mysteries of alchemy, and trace divine abilities back to their origins. He believes in “p
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- 19 Zhu Xian: Heaven’s Mandate 诛仙天命 Ten years of wind and snow, one bowl of steaming food. I thought it was the end, only to learn it was the beginning. Where will the soul return? Where will love lead? At the end of death, is there only oblivion, or a new hope? Five volumes of heavenly scripture conceal every secret of heaven and earth. You may understand the words, yet still fail to understand yourself. The abyss gazes into you only because there is an abyss within you, too. Blood stains the blue sky, and the sword shatters Kunl 30Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Zhu Xian II 诛仙贰 Five hundred years have passed. The glorious era of Zhang Xiaofan, Lu Xueqi, and the others has become legend. In this new age, ancient dangers hidden between heaven and earth are quietly awakening, heralding a catastrophe far worse than anything before. Yun Jinghong, an ordinary boy from Xiaochi Town, has mediocre talent but an unyielding spirit. Drawn into the path of cultivation by fate, he unexpectedly obtains the mysterious ancient sword Jiemie, which holds terrifying power of annihilation 2.4kReads6.6Score29114d adds
- 21 Jade Dynasty 2: Embers 诛仙2余烬 Ten years after the battle to destroy the Immortals, the dust has finally settled. Zhang Xiaofan retreats to the ruins of Grass Temple Village, hoping to bury his extraordinary past amid the ordinary rhythms of life, believing the story has come to an end. Little does he know that the embers of fate have never gone out. 9.3kReads7.2Score1.2k14d adds
- 22 Fortunes Rise in Macau, but the Road to Wealth Is a Little Rocky 风起澳门，暴富的道路有点坑 I was doing all right in the human world. Then, out of nowhere, I was dragged up to heaven, only to be kicked straight down into hell. Now I'm in hell, but my heart is in heaven. Going back to the human world is nothing but a distant dream... Gamblers want to win, but casinos don't want to lose either. In this vast world, people of every kind are busy, all scheming and calculating. A mountain is a mountain, and water is water. Then a mountain is no longer a mountain, and water is no longer water 6.7kReads8.9Score38514d adds
- 23 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 3.9kReads8.2Score18614d adds
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I Roam Jianghu with Fortune-Telling, Seeing Through Hearts and Breaking Deadlocks 我靠算命闯江湖，看透人心破死局
[Period Mystery + Jianghu Secrets and Arts + Wits and Schemes + A Battle of Human Nature + Underdog's Rise + No System] In 2002, I was twenty years old, yet everyone within ten li addressed me respectfully as "Mr. Chen." When the village Party secretary married off his son, he came to me to pick an auspicious date. When a pig farmer lost a pig, he came to ask me where to look. Then one day, the town mayor's wife knelt outside my house, begging me to divine the whereabouts of her missing daughter
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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—14d adds
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Wolves and Brothers 狼与兄弟
The wolf may look cold and ruthless, but beneath that exterior lies boundless tenderness. He is willing to sacrifice himself for his family and brothers! Just like Wang Ying, the protagonist, his heart isn't cold. It's the way he looks down on worldly conventions that makes him seem that way! Like a wolf king, he can become the heart of any team, leading his brothers through life-or-death trials, never abandoning them! From the awkwardness of college days to the hardships of entering the working
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- 28 Black Desires of Youth 黑欲青春 (Not a wish-fulfillment story, and the hero isn't invincible. Enter at your own risk.) A youth stained with blood, vows made without regret, inexperienced love, sincere friendship, the cruelty of society, and the complexity of human nature. An unforgettable, turbulent era! A piece of underworld lore passed down to this day! A band of brothers who shared honor and disgrace, life and death! An unmatched era, with a flag-bearer standing at its peak! Laughing as we watch the tides of fortune, marchi 47.7kReads9.4Score4.3k14d adds
- 29 The Northern City Kingpin 北城枭雄 Formerly titled The Northern City's Underworld Boss, also known as Tales of the Northeastern Underworld. They say the underworld is all about human relationships and worldly ways, but have you ever seen the real underworld? The underworld is dangerous, but the human heart is even more dangerous. Spring ice is thin, and human nature is thinner still. The underworld is nothing more than a game of chess. Once you enter the game, you can no longer control your own fate. I will use my own experie 265.6kReads9.5Score15.3k14d adds
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The Treasure-Hunting Con Artists 老千护宝团
Across ten miles of Haojiang, undercurrents run deep. Neon lights and wild revelry mean nothing to him. Neither does a life of drunken excess. Wu Qiliu, heir to the Qianmen tradition, drifts through a chaotic age, navigating casinos and the streets. Caught between rival gangs, he searches for his missing master and protects the nation's lost treasures. The Zhongyi Gang secretly has his back, but friend and foe are hard to tell apart, and every game of chance could be a deadly trap. Gambling-tabl
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- 31 Fox Ji Mi's Fifth Book 狐姬幂的第5本书 My new work is out! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what drives me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 36Reads—Score—14d adds
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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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The Underworld's Turbulent Road 黑道风云江湖路
What is the Dao? It does not arise because of one person's goodness, nor perish because of one person's evil. Good and evil are determined by people; rise and fall are determined by fate. The people of the world think they are fighting for money, power, or pride. Only in the end do they understand that they were fighting for nothing but illusion. The Dao knows no black or white. All living beings are within the game. (Note: This book is extremely realistic and even somewhat oppressive. Re
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- 34 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 84.3kReads9.6Score10.6k14d adds
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Dragon Head 龙头
For the sake of the goddess, I crossed the big shot in the county. To stay alive, I fought my way up, one step at a time, until I became the boss... One day, the hidden dragon will find the rain it needs. With a single roar, it will shift the mountains and rivers and move the Big Dipper. Stories of the underdog rising to the top will always set the blood racing.
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My First Half of Life: A Bloody Underworld 我的前半生：血色江湖
[The rating just came in and it’ll keep rising, so don’t let it scare you off! This book is entirely handcrafted, and writing it isn’t easy. Hope you enjoy it!] Eight years in the army, decorated for valor, only to have his future stolen by a substitute! He moves to the city for work and tries to keep his head down, but is forced into a dead end! His brother goes to prison, and his sworn brother dies a tragic death. Good people have no way out, while the wicked run rampant! He abandons the strai
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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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- 38 The Thousand Gates 千门 There's an old saying: nine out of ten gamblers get cheated. Wrong. All ten get cheated. My name is Chen Jiu. I'm a card sharp, and I'll use my own story to show everyone that not gambling is the real win. 2.6kReads8.4Score16914d adds
- 39 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! 3.7kReads8.9Score26414d adds
- 40 The Superpowered God of Gambling 异能赌神 Reborn as a legendary gambler, watch him play the pig to eat the tiger and turn the tables... 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 41 Twenty Years of Cheating Casinos as the King of Gamblers 千王之行骗赌场二十年 In a prison in China holding serious criminals, a handsome, refined-looking man in handcuffs and leg irons stared at the four words on the wall: "Turn over a new leaf." He sank into thought. That man was Gu Yuanfei, known as the King of Kings. Now he was not only behind bars, but his closest friend had been brutally killed in the street, and the woman he loved had become the plaything of the rich. Behind it all seemed to be a powerful figure with influence that reached the heavens. Gu Yuanfei 2.6kReads—Score11514d adds
- 42 The Gambling Den 赌城 My new book, I’m a Proper Chinese Medicine Doctor, So Why Am I Being Treated Like a Gynecologist?, is out. As the saying goes, nine out of ten gamblers lose. But as someone who lost everything and worked as a junket agent, I can tell you for sure: every single gambler loses! Even if you can avoid a cheat’s tricks, you can’t escape the odds of the casino. Gambling is a game ordinary people should never touch. It’s a blade that kills without drawing blood! 5.7kReads9.1Score47914d adds
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A Book Above the Clouds 云上的一本书
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- 44 A Book by Meng Dong Wu Zhi 懵董无知的一本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Fanqie Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 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 2.3kReads8.8Score19714d adds
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Underworld Tyrant: Those Who Follow Me Prosper, Those Who Oppose Me Perish! 黑道暴君：顺我者昌，逆我者亡！
[Class Beauty, I’m out of prison. You’ll pay for what you did!] Framed by the class beauty he loved, Wang Erchui was wrongfully imprisoned for three years. The misery of prison transformed the once-ordinary boy into a hardened man. But it was only after getting out and seeking revenge that he gradually realized there was a terrifying story behind it all. The truth was, it wasn’t that love affair that had ruined his life. It was a vast, carefully woven web of darkness. His enemies had already ris
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The Allure of Darkness 黑色之诱惑
By chance, Xia Xue’er steps into a casino and catches a fleeting glimpse of Chen Feng, the underworld boss. It proves to be a trap laid by fate. From then on, she is seized by the demon of gambling and takes one step after another toward the abyss of crime. The curtain rises on her tragic life…
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Twin Rivers: Bloodbath in Republican-Era Shanghai 双川民国之沪上血战
Su Tianci has spent 25 years as a working stiff. After leaving the military, he has the job he earned stolen by someone with power and influence. His attempts to seek justice come to nothing, and with the other side's overwhelming influence, he has no choice but to become a delivery driver. Who could have guessed that while performing a good deed, he'd be struck by a heavy truck and sent straight to the Republican era? Then his transmigration golden finger turns out to let him travel between the
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- 49 Traveling Between Two Worlds: The Red-Hot Years 两界穿梭之火红年代 Li Xiaren is an ordinary office worker, trudging through grueling days that start at eight in the morning and end at midnight. One day, after finally getting several months of back pay, he plans to give himself a well-deserved break. Who could have guessed that eating a grilled kidney for no apparent reason would send him back to the 1970s when he woke up? Luckily, he discovers he can return to 2025, and so two completely different eras open up before him!!! 254Reads7.6Score10114d adds
- 50 A Double Crossing to Make a Fortune in Republican-Era China 双穿之民国淘金 Li Xiaren had spent 25 years as a wage slave, living at the bottom of society and crushed by the pressure of making ends meet. No matter how hard he worked to earn money, he still couldn't afford a home of his own. Even his longtime girlfriend left him. Downhearted, he finally managed to collect the wages he'd been owed and planned to head to Tian Shang Ren Jian for a stuffed flatbread. But who could have guessed? A ball of lightning struck him and sent him straight back to a turbulent era. More 497Reads7.7Score6114d adds
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