Looking for Under-the-Table Hustle Novels, Like Con Artists, Gray-Area Schemes, and Betting 捞偏门的书比如 老千 黑灰色 赌彩
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Overseas Turmoil: The Path of a Crime Lord 海外风云之枭雄路途
My name is Lin Feng. I’ve encountered, witnessed, and experienced many industries and incidents that people would rather keep hidden. So many people have been lured overseas by high-paying jobs, only to die. So many have died because their desires could never be satisfied. This synopsis can’t do the story justice. Read the novel to find out more.
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A Life Ruined by Gambling 被赌博毁掉的人生
This is a true recollection! One greedy impulse drew him into a Macau gambling den. Old brothers turned against each other, and a love affair teetered on the brink. Some wagered their entire fortunes, while others sank into the abyss. Gambling crushed countless ordinary lives and laid bare the endless regrets of gamblers.
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- 3 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 12.9kReads8.8Score1.2k14d adds
- 4 The Crooked Path 走偏门 [Adapted into the short dramas Fishing in the Shadows, Taking the Crooked Path, and The Mastermind; and the animated dramas Fishing in the Shadows: Drifting North, A Crooked Road to Comeback, A Thousand Faces in the Underworld, and Tales of a Shady Deal. Check them out if you’re interested.] What is the crooked path? Those who walk it seek a way to survive for themselves and plot certain doom for others. Once you step onto this path, it stretches as deep as the sea. You’ll roam far and wide, mix 23.7kReads9.1Score3.7k14d adds
- 5 The Deadly Trap 算死局 Everyone knows that shady dealings can make you big money, but not everyone can pull them off. As for me, I was born to make a living this way. My name is Li Shiming, but people call me Li Ergou. In 2006, just after turning eighteen, I pulled off a scheme in Guangzhou and made my first million. By 2026, my assets had topped ten billion. This isn't just a story. It's a true account of the underworld, and a guide to the secrets of human nature. Some people read it and copy the tricks without under 157.1kReads8.8Score6.1k14d adds
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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.
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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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- 8 The Village: Carefree Divine Healer 村野，逍遥神医 [Feel-Good Rural Fiction + Farming Your Way to Success] The meek old farmer Niu Dagen unexpectedly awakens the cultivation techniques from his past life! From then on, Niu Dagen coasts to success in the countryside, growing crops, building wealth, curing the sick, and face-slapping bullies. He lives a carefree life and turns a poor mountain village into a paradise on earth! See how Niu Dagen uses his heaven-defying cultivation techniques to enjoy a happy rural life that even the immortals envy! 488Reads7.7Score10614d adds
- 9 Urban: A Beautiful Mature Woman Sets Her Sights on Me from the Start 都市：开局美妇赖上我 [Urban dual cultivation + all the beauties + exhilarating plot + decisive and merciless + multiple heroines] Xu Xiaofan is devoted to his girlfriend, but one day, an alluring married woman unexpectedly invites him into her car. Inside, she tells him that his girlfriend has been sleeping with her husband. After learning that his girlfriend has betrayed him, Xu Xiaofan breaks up with her for good. No one knows that he is actually a hidden cultivator. After suffering heartbreak and humiliation, he 45kReads7.8Score4k14d adds
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Unorthodox Remedies of the Martial World 江湖偏方
My name is Zhang Chen. A fortune-teller said I was born with a knack for unexpected riches and would never stay on the straight and narrow. But I don’t care. In this world, people who follow the rules get leftovers, while the bold get to eat meat. I haven’t had much schooling, and I don’t understand lofty principles, but I do know this: you only win if you’re willing to fight.
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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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- 12 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
- 13 Stone Gambling: One Touch and I'm Rich 赌石：让我摸一下就发财 [Myanmar + Jade Gambling + Pocket Dimension + Wish Fulfillment + Appraisal + Tycoon] In the mining districts of Myanmar, he gains the ability to gamble on jade and a small portable pocket dimension. Just by touching a piece of jade with his left hand, he can tell its quality. So it makes perfect sense that every top-grade jadeite rough stone should belong to him, right? 15.8kReads8.6Score1.2k14d adds
- 14 Rural Life in the Countryside Era: Tormenting the Young Women Sent Down to the Countryside 下乡年代：嚯嚯女知青 [Youth, Period, Space, Black Soil, Educated Youths, Farming] Qin Shou transmigrated back to the 1970s! With a pocket dimension and supplies at his disposal, he headed to the Northeast to work in the countryside as an educated youth. And that’s where our story begins! Marry a man, and you’ll have clothes to wear and food to eat! Qin Shou’s unexpected arrival in this era drove all the educated young women wild! One after another, they threw themselves at him. 65kReads7.8Score7.4k14d adds
- 15 Tomb Raiding: I Have a Secret Record of Wuhou 盗墓，我有一本乌候秘录 [Low fantasy + no System + multiple heroines + tomb-raiding crossover] My name is Cao Yang, and I'm a transmigrator. I was reborn into a family of tomb raiders and antique enthusiasts. From the start, I took a ghost as my godfather and another as my godmother. Later, a single ancient book set me on this path. In Panjiayuan, in the capital, I'm "Divine-Eyed Cao," the man who can tell a genuine artifact at a glance, and the owner of Tianyi Tower. In the vast Taklamakan Desert, I'm the "Long 10.8kReads8.0Score94114d adds
- 16 Gangster Heiress? Good Girl, Get Down and Call Me Godfather! 黑道大小姐？乖，跪下叫干爹！ [Do Not Read If You’re a Saint] [Ruthless] [Unhinged Male Lead + Yandere Female Lead] [Extremely Satisfying] “You’re undercover. You’re a good person.” “You’re undercover. You have to hold on to your humanity...” Every morning, Lin Bei repeated a few lines to himself in the mirror to make sure he was still a normal person. “Honey, what are you mumbling about? Come with me. We’re taking someone out.” But one sentence from the heiress of a powerful conglomerate made Lin Bei forget all about t 22.7kReads8.1Score2.1k14d 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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- 18 The Bad Guy: I Transmigrated into Xie Wendong, but I Won’t Join the Underworld 坏蛋：穿越谢文东，我不混黑道了 Xie Wendong opened his eyes and discovered that he had become the younger version of the future underworld kingpin. Looking at his youthful yet ruthless face in the mirror, he smiled. “Run with the underworld? That’s way too low-tech.” Armed with modern business thinking, he founded the Dongsheng Group. San Yan became chairman of the security group, Li Shuang took charge of logistics, and Jiang Sen switched careers to become 705Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Dragon Head Supreme 龙头至尊 The campus beauty he'd loved for three years was brutalized and killed! Chen Xuewen, who had done nothing, was framed and sent to prison! His honest, hardworking parents both died horribly while seeking justice for him! After nineteen years of living by the rules and obeying the law, Chen Xuewen finally saw the true face of the world. “Those who kill and burn their way to riches wear golden belts, while those who build bridges and roads leave no bones behind!” “If others can kill and burn, why 200.4kReads9.1Score12k14d adds
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Cao Yang's Journey South 曹阳南下记
Passionate and exhilarating. Now complete. Read with confidence. Cao Yang heads south to seek refuge with his older sister, setting off wave after wave of upheaval…
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- 21 Tales from the Borderlands: All My Relatives Are Ruthless Bandits 边水往事，我家亲戚都是悍匪 Jiang Wang opened his eyes and found himself in the story of The Longest Day in Chang'an? No, a closer look told him this was the original setting! And not just any setting, but the borderlands, at the most lawless time in the Golden Triangle: the early 2000s. There was no order in this era, only bloody cruelty in the forests and stacks of cash. It was a wild gold-rush age, full of outlaws. River-crossing dragons, mountain-tunneling tigers, gunshots ringing without end. When I have a gun, you c 18.9kReads9.0Score1.3k14d adds
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Old Tales of Yangcheng 羊城旧事
[The comic adaptation of this book is now available!] [Urban Life, Underworld, Period Novel, Shady Deals, Romance] The people and events I encountered during those years in Yangcheng! A world of brotherhood that sets your blood racing! A love story that sweeps you off your feet! (Half the story is true, and half is fiction!)
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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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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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Making Money on the Side! 捞偏门！
[After graduating from college, I went from a shady fortune-teller to a political fixer] This book pulls back the curtain on political fixers, giving you an in-depth look at the scams hidden from view in both the underworld and the corridors of power. “Do you think officials are all fools? They know I’m a con artist. They just happen to need a con artist like me to do things for them.”
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- 26 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
- 27 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! 18.3kReads8.9Score1.5k14d adds
- 28 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
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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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I Told You to Go Undercover, Not Hit on the Boss's Wife! 让你卧底，没让你勾搭大嫂！
[Decisive and ruthless + never a saintly heroine + multiple heroines + wildly satisfying] Lei Zhen transmigrates to a parallel world in 1995. Starting out as a low-level underling, he rises through the ranks with ruthless force, amassing wealth and beautiful women until he rules everything with an iron fist!
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- 31 Women, Don't Go to Northern Myanmar. There's No One There. 女人不要去缅北那里没有人 The world is beautiful. I won't be coming back in my next life. Bailu (a pseudonym) said something after returning from northern Myanmar that I still can't forget. She said: "When Heaven was taking me apart, it got the balance just right. Any harder, and I'd have died. Any gentler, and I might have had a decent life." My so-called best friend tricked me into going to northern Myanmar. That's when I learned that women here aren't even treated as human beings. Beatings, imprisonment, being drained 21.1kReads7.4Score1.2k14d adds
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A Macau Blue-and-Red Betting Addict 澳门红蓝小赌徒
The protagonist went through online gambling, lottery betting, soccer betting, getting fired from his job, and watching his company go under, among a string of other misfortunes. It all tore his family apart. But by chance, he came into contact with red and blue, opening a new chapter in his life. With red and blue leading the way and beauties all around him, an ordinary man's comeback begins…
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- 33 My Years as a Gambling-House Host and Companion in Macau 我在澳门叠码陪玩儿的那几年 I'm Chen Jun, a Hebei native who has worked as a junket agent in Macau for five years and is still in the business. People think our line of work is glamorous: we meet wealthy bosses every day and make money just by talking. But only I know the abyss of human nature I face every single day. 1.3kReads8.0Score10414d 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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- 35 A Family of Liars 骗子世家 The imperial examinations were abolished, no imperial edicts arrived, and the family fortunes declined. Zhen Yongxin, a young man from a prestigious family, fell into the world of the jianghu. After receiving guidance from a master, he took to it like a fish to water, prospered, and amassed a vast fortune... 12.7kReads9.2Score1.5k14d adds
- 36 Tales of the Hongmen: My Years as a Con Artist 洪门往事：我当骗子的那些年 Li San was an orphan, adopted as a child by Lord Ma, a former Hongmen member and legendary thief of his generation. He learned Lord Ma's thieving skills, and after Lord Ma died, eighteen-year-old Li San followed in his footsteps, landing in prison for five years. After his release, a man named Men Tiegang lured him into a con through a mix of threats and temptation. This also led Li San to meet Geng Ying, the female lead, who was an undercover police officer. As the group plotted against one ano 1.8kReads9.1Score11014d adds
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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!
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The Youth of Two Generations 两代人的青春
My name is Li Sunan, and I'm a complete... bastard. Please take a moment, settle in, and let me tell you the whole story. From my godfather, Li Zhen, to my second uncle, Cui Lijun, and then to my own dark life. From 1990 to 2020. Thirty tumultuous years in a small city in Northeast China. One act ends, and another begins. Two generations rise and fall, knowing both glory and disgrace. There are no all-powerful crime bosses here. Just a bunch of little people struggling at the bottom... The road
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Back to 2005 to Become the King of Gambling 重回05做赌王
Quit gambling. Quit gambling. Quit gambling. They say important things three times. Small bets break your heart; big bets can cost you your life. This book is written as a warning to those of you who have fallen into gambling and cannot stop: turn back before you go too far, and there is still hope. Han Bing, a casino cheat forced by a gang boss to take the fall, is reborn in 2005. In his previous life, he was controlled by others and turned into a puppet addicted to every vice, committing one c
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- 40 There's No End to Gambling, Turn Back Before It's Too Late 赌海无涯，回头是岸 People often say that nine out of ten gambling games are rigged. There's another old saying, too: gamble long enough, and even the gods will lose. Even in our harmonious society, where material and cultural life are highly developed, the age-old scourge of gambling is still all around us. Countless people have lost everything to it, some even losing their families and their lives. Told from the perspective of someone who works in a casino, this book exposes the little-known shady dealings behind 14.8kReads9.2Score1.4k14d adds
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My Cousin from Dongguan 我的东莞表姐
[Urban Action] [Comedy] [Multiple Heroines] After mastering his studies at a Taoist temple, the young Cao Kun heads down the mountain to work in Guancheng, where he moves in with his cousin. When he steps in to defend her and her best friend, he gets caught up in a gang war and sets off down a path of no return!
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How to Make a Gambling Addict and a Scumbag 赌鬼，渣男是怎样炼成的
Poor, and you're a factory girl; rich, and you're a domineering CEO. A quick look at casino rules, and a chat about foot-bath culture. Let's talk about casino secrets and help you stay away from gambling! Those who love me break their hearts for me. Those who hate me fall apart over me. If life deceives you, don't be sad or lost. Just let it fool you a few more times... If I can't be your Yang Guo, then let me be your Yin Zhiping!
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- 43 Mystery Revival: From the Start, I Control the Gambling Ghost! 神秘复苏：开局驾驭赌鬼！ [Mystery revival, no System, hardcore ghost control] “Stake your life and begin the game.” When blood-red words lit up the arcade screen, Lin Xuan knew he’d been dragged into a gamble more terrifying than being hunted by the Human-Skin Ghost. Across the gaming table sat a fierce ghost sealed inside an old arcade machine: the Gambling Ghost. The stake was his life. If he won, he could control the fierce ghost and gain the [Winning Odds Scale], letting him vaguely sense the likelihood of success o 156Reads5.1Score—14d adds
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With a Fox Immortal, I Subdue a Hundred Ghosts 我以狐仙镇百鬼
The day I was born, nineteen bolts of thunder struck around our family’s courtyard. A fortune-teller said I was born a demon child, fated to suffer eighteen calamities in my life. Either someone else would die, or I would. As it turned out, the fortune-teller met his own calamity on the very day I was born. He carried me out of the village, and suddenly dropped dead!
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- 45 Getting to the Bottom of Mind-Reading 起底观心术 When I was five, a fortune-teller said I’d be able to read people’s minds when I grew up. My parents thought I was a genius and spent the whole family’s savings to send me to school. But I failed the college entrance exam and became a fried-noodle vendor. That vendor later became a “Walking Encyclopedia,” all thanks to the saying, “In books, there are houses of gold.” You are not just who you are. You can become a different kind of dazzling light. Read a comment on the first page, and you’ll get 230.7kReads9.6Score66.9k14d adds
- 46 Dark Face Reading 黑相术 After I lost my sight, a matchmaker set me up on a date, and I met a girl. She wasn’t human… One night, as we slept, I touched her tail. 24kReads8.9Score2.9k14d adds
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My Stories of Macau's Stormy Underworld 我的澳门风云故事
Once you've been to Macau, it's yours for life! What kind of city is A-Ma-Gau? Why are so many people obsessed with it? What kind of tumultuous life awaits a naive young woman who ventures into Macau alone? Here, stories unfold every day, and miracles happen every day. In these most authentic stories, you'll see human nature at its rawest, the most insatiable desires, and the cheapest emotions. Welcome to my life in Macau.
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The Day I Went to Prison: She Blazed a Trail Alone and Smashed My Shackles 入狱当天：她单枪铺路，为我砸镣
[Not Reborn]+ [No System]+ [One Female Lead] The last big sister of the underworld! The day I went to prison, she broke into the jail and smashed my shackles, clearing a path for me with a gun in hand! If the rest of my life is destined to be without light, at least in this moment, she is by my side! Some even call her the last big sister of Southeast Asia! Truth is, she was just forced to take charge in a crisis, with no other choice! Since we're already fugitives, then let's take our dark love
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Slaying Dragons on the Road to Power 我在仕途斩群龙
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- 50 There Is No Winter in Northern Myanmar 缅北没有冬天 Nineteen-year-old Qiao Shiyang leaves his small hometown in the south to go to Myanmar with a man who claims to “know the right people,” hoping to raise money for his father’s medical bills. He thinks it will be a brief chance to make some money. But the moment the bus crosses the border, his life begins to spiral out of control. Dedicated to everyone who has ever walked alone through the darkness. 73Reads—Score—14d adds
