Novels like A Book by Black Shackles
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- 51 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 9.8kReads7.5Score46514d adds
- 52 An Online Gambling Addict 网络小赌徒 First-person narration: “One step into the abyss, one step into paradise.” There’s no such thing as a free lunch, much less a chosen one blessed by fate. Time can’t be turned back. I search for the self I lost in the mire... 5kReads8.2Score23414d adds
- 53 There Is No Way Back, Life Has Turned to Mud 再回首已无路，人生似烂泥 [Redemption + Debt + Desperate Times + Everything Is Fate] I understand now: once you take the wrong path, there’s no turning back. You only get one life... 200Reads—Score814d adds
- 54 Tales of the Thousand Gates 千门之往事 My name is Chen Xiang, and I'm a professional card sharp. Back in my hometown, there's a saying: The Outcast, above one person and below ten thousand! It means that whenever a gambler strikes it lucky at the table, tens of thousands of others are bound to lose and be trampled underfoot. If one person wins, ten thousand lose! That's gambling! Treasure your life and stay away from gambling! 1.8kReads8.5Score13514d adds
- 55 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
- 56 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
- 57 A Thousand Generals 千将 Five young men become sworn brothers, but disaster strikes: the eldest is murdered, the second is gravely wounded, and the third is sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Inside, the third brother becomes a disciple of Yuan Hanlin, a master of the Thousand Gates. Fifteen years later, Shen Hao, loyal and true to his friends, is released with gambling skills that surpass his master’s, unshakable convictions, and a superhuman memory. Watch how he uses his abilities to hunt down the person who framed —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 58 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 121Reads—Score—14d adds
- 59 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 1.3kReads8.5Score10214d adds
- 60 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. 18.5kReads8.4Score1.6k14d adds
- 61 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
- 62 Macau Memoirs 澳门回忆录 In 2020, I arrived in Macau and experienced dizzying highs and lows. One person, one city, a stretch of memories, and a bitter regret. This is the story of the pain and passion of that time. I may be unwilling to let go, but I still have to face reality. 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 63 My Years of Online Gambling 那些年我网赌的日子 A first-person story about a gambler named Jiang Feng. Gambling online brings a chain of consequences for family, friendship, and love. It’s real, and it’s cruel. This is my story. Take my advice: if you’re going through this too, turn back as soon as you can. 1.5kReads8.2Score10714d adds
- 64 The King of Gamblers: Who Is the King of Gamblers? 赌王之谁是赌王 This book is called The Thousand Gates of the Blue Road. As the head of the Thousand Gates, I’ll take you into the story of the Thousand Gates of the Blue Road. I’m a con artist, or more precisely, the leader of the con artists. I joined the Thousand Gates and walked the Blue Road. The Thousand Gates is a sect. It’s nothing like the crooked little gangs you imagine, picking pockets, showing off tricks, and swindling people out of their money! 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 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 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 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… 1.3kReads6.7Score10014d adds
- 67 Scam Journal 诈骗笔记 Pyramid schemes, lottery-number scams, fake doctors, counterfeit money... Pig-butchering scams, feng shui scams, rigged card games... Human trafficking, dreams sold to aspiring stars, corpse trafficking... After-school tutoring centers, unfinished real estate projects, money laundering through art... A book called A Scammer’s Notes records the scams one fraudster has experienced or planned, as well as the truth about society. I got tangled up with that fraudster many years ago, too, and that bec —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 68 The Cardsharp: Back to the Underworld 老千：重返江湖 11.5kReads9.0Score96614d adds
- 69 God of Gamblers: Turning My Life Around with a One-Yuan Coin 赌神：从一元硬币翻身开始 Zhang Huailuo worked as a traffic cop for four years, diligently and conscientiously doing his duty. But after stopping a car he should have left alone, he was sent the very next day to watch over a reservoir in the countryside. While passing through a village, he spotted several slot machines. The sight brought back memories of playing them as a child and getting chased around by his parents. With a one-yuan coin in his pocket, he went in for a game, hoping to relive those childhood thrills. Bu 16Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 70 The Little Northeasterner of Macau 澳门小东北 My new work is here! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you'll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 374Reads8.4Score5214d adds
- 71 Aobiao Bula's Third Book 奥德彪不拉的第3本书 The rating has only just been posted, so it will go up over time. Feel free to listen and read! [First Person] [Based on Real Experience] [Everyday Urban Life] This book recounts the true story of an ordinary person who stumbled into online gambling. At first, he joined in thinking he could get lucky. But the lure of winning and losing drew him in deeper and deeper, until his savings were gone, he was buried in debt, and his life sank step by step into a dark abyss. He endured the pain of being 2.4kReads6.7Score10914d adds
- 72 My Years as a Cardsharp 我做老千的那几年 This book is about inspiration, hard work, hardship, family, love, and friendship. It tells the story of Li Fan, an ordinary man and his struggle to make something of himself. Li Fan starts out at the bottom. Relying on his own abilities, he takes one step at a time until he achieves greatness, reaches the top of the world, and becomes a business tycoon. 21Reads—Score314d adds
- 73 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! 2.6kReads9.1Score26814d adds
- 74 The Red and Blue Battlefield 红蓝战场 Of everyone I’ve lost, the person I miss most is myself. In gambling, the scariest thing isn’t winning or losing, but the temptation of desire. A decade of bets, a lifetime in chains. The neon lights of Macau baccarat once illuminated my ambition. The chips at tables back home in Texas built up a false sense of prestige. The “guaranteed win” pitches in online gambling pop-ups ultimately dragged me into a bottomless pit. I thought I had desire under control, but I had long since become a puppet o 2kReads8.0Score10614d adds
- 75 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
- 76 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
- 77 Golden Eyes: The King of Jadeite Gambling 黄金瞳：透视赌石王 [Jade Gambling + Antique Appraisal + Comeback + Underdog + Feel-Good Fiction] Intern Lin Feng is humiliated, but unexpectedly awakens Golden Eyes that can see through rough jade and discern the secrets of countless treasures. From then on, worthless stones conceal Imperial Green jade, and rotten wood reveals millennium-old treasures. He makes a fortune gambling on jade and appraising antiques, earns trillions, and delivers face-slapping comeuppances to industry giants. He also uncovers the myste 293Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 A Pickpocket’s Notebook 北派小偷笔记 I’m a thief, born in the north. My life has been full of twists and strange turns, and I’ve always felt it deserved to be written down. Along the way, I’ve met all kinds of people and seen all sorts of bizarre things. I’ve lost count of how many luxury villas I’ve broken into and how many museums I’ve robbed. Even the XX Museum, said to have the strongest security in the world, is somewhere I can come and go as I please. If you’re interested in the old Rong’s line of work, why not take a look in 4.9kReads8.8Score36614d adds
- 79 At the Poker Table: The Dirtiest Underworld Around You 牌桌：你身边最肮脏的江湖 [The World of the Cardsharps] The card table is the easiest place in the world to get something for nothing, bar none. That is precisely why it is filled with greed, madness, and debauchery. Beneath the table lie filthy conspiracies, deceit, schemes, cruelty, and every unscrupulous trick imaginable. As the owner of a mahjong parlor for many years, I solemnly warn you: become hooked on the card table, and you’ve plunged into the devil’s abyss... 607Reads9.4Score11014d adds
- 80 Taking the System to Las Vegas 带着系统闯拉斯维加斯 (New book: "Paranormal: From the Start, I Alone Have the Ultimate Max-Level Talent, Pick One of Nine". Everyone is welcome! My heartfelt thanks and gratitude!) Ancestral Talent System! Gambling Saint Talent, Medical Saint Talent, Sword Saint Talent... There are countless talents in the mortal world, and Zhao Yunke enjoys them all. The past, present, and future; Blue Star, the High Martial World, and the Cultivation World; Thirty-three heavens, billions of skills: Zhao Yunke enjoys them all. Watc 627Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 81 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
- 82 Thirteen Ghost-Hand Techniques: There's a Way to Gamble 鬼手十三式：赌亦有道 A true gambling hero Does not gamble for profit, but to cultivate the mind. A game of cards reflects the ways of the world; what you choose to keep or give up reveals your true self. Stake your greed and anger, and hold fast to your principles. Know right from wrong, and distinguish good from evil. Wins and losses vanish in an instant; only a steadfast character endures. Never cheat to win, and never let gains or losses cloud your mind. See how the young gambling hero Huang Long makes the Thirte 594Reads—Score—14d adds
- 83 Kuaishou Wuxin's First Book 快手无心的第1本书 My new work is out! You can read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 12Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 84 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 1.6kReads7.1Score10714d adds
- 85 Ten Years of Trials and Tribulations: Finding Redemption Through Gambling 十年风雨，赌途自我救赎 Somewhere along the way, it began to feel as if we had all become marionettes, constantly controlled by our phones, whether for work or entertainment. Some people, though, are willing to take reckless risks for something for nothing, only to lose both their money and everything else, setting themselves on a path of no return... The house always wins! My name is Long Zheng. Drawing on my own experiences, I recount more than a decade of gambling, from my college graduation through 2025: starting w 1.1kReads8.7Score—14d adds
- 86 Online Gambling: It All Started When My Creditors Came Knocking 网赌，从被债主找上门开始 [Online Gambling] [Multiple Heroines] [Realistic] [Highly Immersive] [Not Another Mindless Power Fantasy] I went all in on big one last time. Lady Luck didn’t favor me, and my creditors were already blocking the door with chains in their hands. I had secretly taken my mother’s most precious gold bracelet. I wanted to use it to turn my life around… “Xu Yuan, let’s go home, okay?” Yu Yao held an umbrella over me, shielding me from the torrential rain. Through the downpour, her eyes grew blurry wit 11.8kReads8.4Score81514d adds
- 87 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
- 88 The Universe Helps Me Recruit a Cultivation Team 宇宙帮我拐个修仙团队 An ancient book forcibly burrowed into my chest, leaving a bleeding wound. I used it to travel through the universe, met Sister Zhirong, an embodiment of the moon, and practiced cultivation with her in the mortal world. I followed the coordinates to a planet of immortal cultivation, swept the sect's senior sister off her feet and made her my wife, and made a host of friends. Once my cultivation was perfected, I returned to the modern world with my senior sister and everyone else, gaining both th 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 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! 14.7kReads8.8Score96614d adds
- 90 The Red and Black Ledgers: A Lottery Tycoon's Rebirth in the Stock Market 红黑帐本：彩票大佬的股海重生 He is the lottery mastermind who strikes fear into the hearts of all, manipulating the entire lottery market with a single move. By chance, he uncovers the secrets of the stock market and turns the odds-based thinking and market-making tactics of the lottery world into a deadly weapon in the battle for stocks. Using the lottery market’s precise predictions to crack the mysteries of candlestick charts, and the ruthless methods of underground trading to fight the capital vultures, he takes on inst 78Reads—Score1214d adds
- 91 Betting on the Odds: From Cleaning Out Arcades to Taking on Cheaters 赌概率，从赢爆游戏厅到对决老千 [The short drama is now streaming on Hongguo and Tomato.] Wei Zhihao has a loving wife and two adorable children. In middle age, he travels constantly for work to earn money. After dying in a car accident, he transmigrates into his 21-year-old self in a parallel world. At the time, he and his childhood friend are holed up in a video arcade watching a movie, and the public security unit has already surrounded the place. Wei Zhihao manages to escape the video arcade. He spots a game hall by the ro 6.4kReads8.3Score47314d adds
- 92 The King of Kings with X-Ray Vision 透视之千王之王 [Rebirth + X-Ray Vision + Card Sharp + Gambling God + Wish-Fulfillment + Urban Supernatural Powers] Zhang Wei rented a BMW to show off while heading home for the New Year. His flashy ride attracted the wrong kind of attention, and someone schemed against him, luring him into a card game. He was set up and lost everything he owned, along with the BMW he’d rented. Penniless and saddled with enormous debt, Zhang Wei chose to jump off a building. But when he woke up, he discovered he had been reborn 233Reads7.1Score10014d adds
- 93 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
- 94 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
- 95 I'm Really Not the God of Gambling 我真不是赌神 Quit gambling + Love your country + Crush the little devils My name is Wang Ming. I gambled away so much that I couldn't repay my debts. While trying to cross the road under pursuit by my creditors, I was run over and killed by a big truck. I was reborn, and I even got a System. Doesn't that mean I'm going to take off? A happy life with beauties on both sides! But why are those little devils everywhere? Guess I'll just have to take them on! 87Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 A Case Within a Case 案中连环案 The skies over Bingcheng collapsed without warning. One after another, the top courtesans vanished into thin air. And every last one of them was a money-making jewel kept hidden away by their respective nightclubs. Not a trace of them alive or dead. Not even a single strand of hair left behind. Overnight, all of Bingcheng was thrown into chaos. Young wives and beautiful women, anyone with even a little charm, were all too damn scared to leave their homes... Nobody knew who would be the next to 6.4kReads6.3Score26214d adds
- 97 Livestream: Becoming the God of Gambling in Aomen, Driving Netizens Wild with Envy 直播：去澳岛当赌神，网友羡疯啦 In a nutshell: “Starting with a hundred bucks and predicting ten seconds ahead, the whole internet watches him turn the ‘impossible’ into legend!” On the day he transmigrates, Zang Fan binds himself to the Prediction System. All he needs is popularity to level up! Starting with just a hundred bucks in his livestream, he uses “divine predictions” to hit one long shot after another, turning the tables for a million in three minutes and setting the platform abuzz in ten! Rich socialites shower him 7.1kReads5.9Score39014d adds
- 98 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? 407Reads7.1Score13614d adds
- 99 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 28Reads—Score—14d adds
- 100 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
