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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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- 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. 23.6kReads9.0Score2.3k14d adds
- 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! 454kReads9.5Score47.1k14d adds
- 4 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 1.4kReads9.3Score20414d 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 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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- 7 The Cardsharp: Back to the Underworld 老千：重返江湖 11.5kReads9.0Score96614d adds
- 8 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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Look at Me Like That Again and I'll Slap You 再看老子拍死你
[The Most Hardcore Male Lead] [邪修] [A Cunning Old Schemer] [A Little Pervert] [Making a Fortune in Silence] [Beast Taming] [Looting Corpses] [Romantic Encounters] Slapping beautiful women, romantic encounters, dual cultivation, looting corpses, and finishing off his enemies with a surprise strike. He raises a pack of ferocious beasts, birds of prey, venomous insects, and corpse puppets, and his combat prowess is off the charts. The male lead pulls off one outrageous move after another, never pla
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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 Blue Road: Cardsharps and Beauties 蓝道江湖：老千和尤物
Don't gamble if you want to win. Stay away from gambling. In 2005, I got caught up in a conspiracy involving a gambling scheme and a rigged card game, and met three middle-aged female card sharks. These women were masters of deception, ruthless in their schemes, and had influence far and wide. Caught in their world, I felt like a boat adrift in a stormy sea. I couldn't believe there were so many temptations and traps in the world. I couldn't believe people could go so far as to turn the world up
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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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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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Cheating at Cards 出千
[High-stakes gambling, underworld, period setting, youth] There are hidden corners in the city where you can make your dream of getting rich overnight come true. At the same time, you can experience the despair of falling straight into hell. They don’t put up signs or make themselves easy to find. You have to be able to smell desire, like a shark sensing blood, or a sunflower yearning for the sun. My father was a man who once chased the sun, only to fall into the abyss. I was once the King of Ki
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- 15 A Review of This Life 复盘今生 Wang Yuhan once had a happy family. He and his wife, Yu Meixia, were both teachers. They excelled at their jobs, had a son and a daughter, and were the envy of everyone. But then, one day, it all vanished. If you were the protagonist, how would you react? How would you face betrayal by the person you love and trust most? Drawing on a deep understanding of life, the author tells a moving, vivid story of love and loss, life and death, and tangled passions in plain, flowing prose. The story also ra 750Reads8.8Score10114d adds
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Bro, You're a Cop, Not a Taoist Priest! 大哥，你是警察啊，不是道士！
[If you dislike cutesy, whimpering heroines, read no further] [Also known as: Me, a humble paper effigy maker, and you want me to crack a major case] When Yue Dong went to a telecom service center to cancel his late grandfather’s phone service, the staff gave him a hard time. “Rules are rules. The account holder has to be here in person!” “You have to follow the rules!” Yue Dong laughed in exasperation, then waved his hand and used his paper effigy-making skills to summon his late grandfather. T
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A Book by Xiao Yulong 萧玉龙的一本书
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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
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- 19 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. 2.2kReads7.1Score10514d adds
- 20 The Butcher Who Walked Out of Prison 从监狱中走出的人屠 Being part of the underworld isn’t about fighting and killing. It’s about dealing with people. Su Bai had no connections, no powerful backers, and had just spent ten years in prison. After his release, he was penniless, so his older brother found him a job as a computer lab attendant. Watch him turn his life around and make his way in both the underworld and the legitimate world. In the underworld, he’s a big shot with people ready to answer his call. In the legitimate world, he has powerful fri 28.4kReads8.5Score2.3k14d 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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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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What a Masterful Trick, Auntie Is on Her Knees for You 千术真高，阿姨给你跪了
After my parents divorced, I went to live with my father. But when I was twenty-five, the mother who had abandoned me sixteen years earlier suddenly showed up, wanting to claim me as her child. My mother is the head of a top-tier company, with powerful forces backing her. Faced with my mother’s attempt to make amends, what should I do?
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- 24 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 3kReads8.8Score24214d adds
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Temptations of the Jianghu 江湖诱惑
[Underworld + Mature Beauties + Conquest + Feel-Good Action + Multiple Heroines] [The first five chapters take their time, but the story gets thrilling later. Read ten chapters, and if you’re not hooked, come chop me up!] Wang Xiaohu leaves the countryside for Jiangcheng, hoping to live a quiet life, but a clash draws him into the whirlpool of the underworld. He meets Qian Jiajia, gets close to Cui Meng, and is even forcibly h
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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!
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- 27 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 185Reads7.6Score—14d adds
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The Official’s Path: From Gambler to Crime Boss 官道江湖：从老千到枭雄
Some say the underworld is all about fighting and killing. Others say it's all about human relationships and social savvy. But I know that, in the eyes of the true power brokers and the wealthy, the underworld doesn't mean a damn thing! Ninety percent of its big shots are nothing more than government slaves and lackeys. My name is Wang Qiang, and I'm a cheat. Because of my cousin, I somehow became one of Third Master's government slaves. I became his attack dog on the road to promotion, a steppi
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- 29 A Different Path Through the Martial World 不一样的江湖路 My new work is here! You can find 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! 18Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 30 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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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.
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The Gambler: A True Autobiography 老千，真实自传
My life changed in the winter of 2008. With nothing to my name, I relied on cheating at games to get a mansion, four cars, and savings nearing eight figures. It all started with a disc covered in static. Shuffling, keeping track of cards, cutting, dealing, switching cards. Poker, mahjong, pai gow, Chinese dominoes... They built my life from the inside out. This novel is for reference only. I accept no responsibility if anyone tries to imitate it.
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The Thousand Gates, 1989: The Reborn Never Walk into a Dead End 千门1989：重生者不入死局
#Transmigration and Rebirth #The World of the Thousand Gates #Gambling Showdowns #Redemption of Human Nature #High-Stakes Plot #Hardcore Expertise #The Struggle Between the Upper and Lower Eight Generals He jumped off a bridge over gambling debts, only to be reborn as the King of the Thousand Gates. In this life, armed with peerless gambling skills, he navigates both the underworld and the legitimate world. A blood feud against his school, the code of the jianghu, and the demons of his past life
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My Boyfriend Tricked Me Onto a Gambling Ship on Valentine's Day 情人节我被男友骗上赌船
My Boyfriend Tricked Me onto a Gambling Boat on Valentine's Day
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Ten Days to the End 十日终焉
2024 Tomato Novel Annual Peak Rankings TOP 1 | 2024 China Online Literature Influence List | 2024 China Good Novel Award | Over 2 million copies sold (No harem, no formulaic tropes, no invincibility, no System, no mindless antics, no wish fulfillment. Read with caution if these bother you.) Just when I thought it was an ordinary day, I discovered I had been captured and taken to the End. Just when I thought I could escape by continually taking part in death games, people began awakening supernat
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- 36 What Do You Mean, All-Around Genius? I Keep Getting Hellish Starts 什么全能学家，把把地狱开局 [Death Game + Slow Burn + Brain-Twisting Puzzles + Battle of Wits] After falling from grace, math prodigy Jiang Nan is killed by a senior student he happens to meet. He discovers that he hasn’t truly died, but has instead entered a game called the “Death Game.” He can only keep living by winning one game after another! Fortunately, Jiang Nan awakens an SSS-rank profession: Omniscient Scholar. [With the world’s highest IQ, he can also master all the knowledge humanity has accumulated to date.] Bu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Genius 鬼才 Bai Mu, a chairman with congenital heart disease, meets Lan Yuan, a detective squad captain who is as straight as they come, while investigating a fatal fall. Bai Mu just wants to wrap up the case and go home for a nap, but the investigation veers off course and ensnares them in a criminal organization’s “layoff game,” codenamed “Ranked Elimination”… 118Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 38 The Mysterious City 神秘之都 A-San was a young man of mysterious origins who lived in an utterly ordinary little village. Clever and quick-witted by nature, he found his fate taking a sharp turn when he turned eighteen. It was a foggy morning. As usual, A-San was getting ready to help his parents work in the fields when a letter of unknown origin shattered the quiet. The paper had yellowed with age, and its writing was blurred, as though worn away by the passage of many years. Curiously, A-San opened it. Inside was a single —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 EN My Right Eye is a God-Tier Computer 我的右眼是神级计算机 I am the super artificial intelligence in your eyes. You humans call an IQ of 85 stupid and an IQ of 135 smart, but you will never understand what an IQ of 125,000 means! From now on, I will be your right-hand man! 150.8kReads9.2Score19k14d adds
- 40 The Esoteric World: Starting with Inheriting a Library 密教世界：从继承图书馆开始 [Not a power fantasy] [Cthulhu] Day 1 Good news! I’m Xia Yin. After dying, I transmigrated into the body of someone else who was also called Xia Yin. Everything is unfamiliar, but at least I can explore this new world. Day 7 Bad news! I’ve discovered that the country I’m in is transitioning from the late Middle Ages to early capitalism. Its legal system is crude and harsh, and some traditional customs are hard to understand. I’m not sure if I can adapt to life here. Day 14 Good news! I’ve discov 44Reads6.8Score—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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- 42 Tales from the Borderlands: Bloodstained Northern Myanmar 边水往事：血色缅北 Since its release, the drama "Escape from the Trilateral Slopes" has taken the internet by storm like a dark horse. It tells the story of Shen Xing, a clueless young worker who accidentally ends up in the tropical backwater of Sanbianpo, a chaotic place full of shady characters, and struggles to survive amid a dangerous criminal syndicate. Sanbianpo, where rules and laws mean nothing, is a patchwork land where prosperity and decay coexist. Like the real region of northern Myanmar, it is rife wi 283Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 43 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 4Reads7.4Score514d adds
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A Book Above the Clouds 云上的一本书
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You Were Supposed to Visit the Task Force, and You Solved the Case? 让你慰问专案组，你把案子破了？
Su Mu graduates and is assigned to work as a police officer in the police station’s political affairs office. On his first day, he’s sent to convey the leadership’s regards to a special investigation team, but on the way there, he cracks a case the team had been helpless to solve. He catches a rabid dog, then solves a string of thefts. During a coordinated operation, they find a suspect’s trunk full of junk. Su Mu manages to assemble the junk into a firearm, uncovering and dismantling a gun-runn
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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
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The Legendary Mei Luo, Master of a Thousand Tricks 千门圣手梅洛传
On New Year's Eve, a gang of thugs shoot his father and grandfather dead, leaving him an orphan. With smuggling and illicit trafficking running rampant, a certain department secretly establishes a training base to cultivate experts in every field. There, the young Mei Luo masters all kinds of gambling tricks. Watch as he makes his way through the underworld and into the Star-Picking Club. Though he loved playing the hero, in the end he made his living through gambling. As he lay dying, he repea
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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 Return of the Gambling God 赌神归来
A croupier is drawn into a chaotic affair by the lure of money. After being caught cheating, he escapes from a gambling ship and drifts across a desolate sea... [Author's note: Gambling is harmful! Gambling is harmful! Gambling is harmful! Don't gamble! Don't gamble! Don't gamble!]
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In Another World, I Use Taoist Arts to Empty My Enemy's Warehouse 到了异世，我用道术搬空仇人仓库
An alternate history setting. Please do not compare this story with real history! Gou Yunshu, a modern Daoist exorcist, was betrayed by her best friend during an exorcism. She was struck down by heavenly retribution, killed by a bolt of lightning. She transmigrated into the body of a young girl in the Great Xia Kingdom of the Republican era and discovered that her grandfather had been captured by the Japanese army. To rescue him, she took her younger siblings, bought a house, and left Laolongtan
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