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When Chen Xiao, the ace dealer in Las Vegas, brought the mysterious "Three Cai Dice" system to a foreign borderland where war was beginning to break out and famine spread, what he faced was not the starting point of a prince or general, but a desperate situation where his family was impoverished and on the verge of starvation. He only has the gentle wife he won who is always in fear, and the kind-hearted widowed sister-in-law who is about to be "gambled" away by him.

In 1955, at the end of the lunar calendar, a mountain rain was about to come. Jianglin City Criminal Police Officer Chen Mo, a veteran of the battlefield, only believes in bullet casings and blood stains. Lu Mingyuan, a profiler from the Public Security College, returned from studying in the Soviet Union and is good at reading people's minds. A series of murders tied two people to the same dangerous ship. Hammer killings, water burials, garage torture, wilderness executions - the murderer wandered across the provinces like a ghost, and each scene was like a carefully choreographed drama, leaving behind an old gun and a newspaper clipping marked with a red circle. Chen Mo chased in the traces, and Lu Mingyuan profiled in the actions. What they were approaching was not only a madman codenamed "Shadow Craftsman", but also a past sealed by cement: four years ago, a major engineering accident caused casualties, all records were wiped out, and all witnesses were being silenced one by one...

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