Novels like Memories of Old Macau
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- 1 Macau: The Bunam Story Hour 澳门：布南故事会 The Mind of a Gambler When I was nineteen, I followed my brother-in-law to Macau for the first time. In just forty minutes, 40,000 Hong Kong dollars turned into 120,000. In that moment, I thought I had seized the golden coin of destiny, never realizing I had just opened the door to an abyss. Over the next thirteen years, I experienced every kind of life’s roller coaster in this eastern gambling city: the heady rush of making a fortune every day at an underground casino back home, and the despai 553Reads—Score7214d adds
- 2 Yi Zhi Shang An De's 1st Book 一只上岸的的第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! 25Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 My Journey to Macau 我的澳门来时路 The road I came by is a road of no return. I’m as ordinary as they come. I thought I was born under a lucky star, but what people call luck is nothing more than bait dangled by the Grim Reaper. 887Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 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... 5.1kReads8.2Score24014d adds
- 5 I’m Devouring Egg Tarts and Dominating the Poker Table 狂炫蛋挞，我在牌桌大杀四方 Fang Yan is an official at the Lotus Casino, and his life hangs by a thread! In his darkest hour, he unexpectedly awakens the "Taotie Card Eye": wolfing down egg tarts lets him see through the cards and read his opponents' hands! And so the "Egg Tart God of Poker" bursts onto the scene! At underground gambling dens, he sees through the cheats' tricks at a glance and rakes in millions in chips. At the Eastern Star tournament, he outplays a mathematical genius with flawless calculations and face-s 104Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 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... 213Reads—Score10814d adds
- 7 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
- 8 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. 1.7kReads—Score10614d adds
- 9 You Won at Mahjong, but What About Your Life? 麻将胡了，可你的人生呢？ My name is Li Yang. I dropped out of high school and became a good-for-nothing, just wasting my days. Then one day, a buddy sent me a link, and from that moment on, my fate spiraled out of control. Red-envelope Minesweeper was the bait. A triple in a one-minute lottery made my blood race, while long streaks in Dragon-Tiger Duel repeatedly left me shattered. Bro, no, everyone reading this: I'm begging you, don't touch it. At the end of that road, there's no fortune, only destruction. 3.6kReads8.9Score18714d adds
- 10 The 13th Book by Black Marlin Fan 喜欢黑枪鱼第13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! 220Reads—Score10014d adds
- 11 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
- 12 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
- 13 The Days I Spent Gambling Online 网赌的日子 I'm a gambler. I grew up surrounded by gambling, moving from offline betting to online gambling. This book recounts my own experiences and how I ruined my life, one step at a time. [The rating is a little low because the book has only just launched.] 113Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 14 Twenty Years of Change in Macau 澳门二十年风云变化 The protagonist, Zhang Hui, runs a bar in Shanghai. By chance, he travels to Macau to study the service industry. Through a series of coincidences, he eventually builds his business empire with Macau as its commercial engine. After Macau opened up its gaming rights, the city enjoyed twenty years of golden development. During that time, Zhang Hui witnessed the remarkable stories of all kinds of heroes in Macau, as well as human nature and the passage of time. He saw heroes rise to glory and meet 720Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 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! 407Reads8.4Score10714d adds
- 16 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
- 17 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
- 18 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
- 19 The Gambler: Ruling the Four Seas 老千之纵横四海 My master often said, “Where there are people, there are grudges. Where there are grudges, there is the jianghu. People are the jianghu, and the jianghu lives in the grudges between people. A lifetime as a person is a lifetime in the jianghu.” The jianghu stretches far and is impossible to predict. Truth and lies blur together: the false may be true, and the true may be false. (This book has no playing the pig to eat the tiger and no face-slapping plotlines. The early chapters are harsh. This is 426Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 20 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
- 21 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
- 22 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 15.5kReads8.4Score98714d adds
- 23 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
- 24 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 8.7kReads8.2Score63814d adds
- 25 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
- 26 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
- 27 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. 25.8kReads8.9Score1.7k14d adds
- 28 Golden Eyes: Appraising Treasures and Gambling on Jade 鉴宝赌石黄金瞳 [Stone Gambling + Antiques Appraisal + Golden Eyes + X-Ray Vision + Underdog’s Rise + Power Fantasy] Ye Long works at an antique shop. By chance, a tiny sword inside a bronze lock shoots him, and when he wakes, he has a pair of golden eyes that can see through things and distinguish genuine antiques from fakes. From then on, he has an uncanny knack for appraising treasures and gambling on stones, making waves wherever he goes. Money, beautiful women, and power are all within reach as he rises to 80Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 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
- 30 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
- 31 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 6.4kReads8.3Score47814d adds
- 32 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
- 33 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
- 34 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
- 35 The Cardsharp: Back to the Underworld 老千：重返江湖 11.5kReads9.0Score96614d adds
- 36 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
- 37 Is There No Law? I Can See Through Everything, So I Look Wherever I Want! 没王法，顶着透视眼乱看！ [Stone gambling + antiques appraisal + X-ray vision + settling scores on the spot + ruthless and decisive + underdog comeback + stress relief] Xiao Yang is a deliveryman who gains X-ray vision after a thug ambushes him and injures his head while he's helping a beauty catch her cheating boyfriend in the act. From then on, he turns his life around, gaining money, beautiful women, luxury cars, mansions, and power... [This is a feel-good underdog comeback story. If it doesn't make you happy, come fi 7.6kReads7.9Score89314d adds
- 38 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 169Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 39 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
- 40 Golden Eyes: A Midlife Comeback 黄金瞳：中年逆袭 This book's animated adaptation is now streaming on Fanqie. At 45, Lin Jianguo was a failed middle-aged man, the sort you could find anywhere in the city. He had been unemployed for three years. His wife had lost all hope and was about to divorce him, his daughter had no money for tuition, his mortgage payments were overdue, and his parents were bedridden. At the lowest point in his life, he unexpectedly awakened the Golden Eyes ability inside his family's ancestral jade pendant, allowing him to 1.5kReads7.0Score20914d adds
- 41 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
- 42 A Leek's Cultivation Diary 韭菜修行记 At a certain point in trading, you suddenly realize that what determines whether you make a profit has never been your technique. Indicators are useful, and a System is useful too, but neither is the foundation. The real foundation lies in your mindset: how you view the market, how you view yourself, and how you make sense of everything that happens to you. I didn’t think that way at first. I thought that if my technique was polished enough and my system complete enough, I could earn steady prof 49.5kReads9.3Score6k14d adds
- 43 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
- 44 Stone Gambling, Treasure Appraisal, and the Golden Eyes 赌石鉴宝黄金瞳 [Stone gambling + antique appraisal + X-ray vision + underdog comeback + ordinary protagonist + exhilarating read] Lin Chao is a laborer struggling to survive in the Ruili jade market. He thinks he'll spend his whole life dealing with dirt and backbreaking work, until an accident leaves him struck on the head by a steel pipe. When he wakes, he discovers he's gained a pair of “Golden Eyes” that can see through a stone's outer shell and reveal the jade within. A rough stone dismissed by its stall 318Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 45 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
- 46 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
- 47 Dark Web 暗网 How terrifying is the dark web? You may have brushed against its edges without even realizing it... Have you heard of the dark web? Hackers call it the other side of the internet. Every day, things that seem impossible to ordinary people happen there. A young woman goes missing for seven days. By the time we rescue her, she can hardly be called human. Then she tells me something so outrageous it makes my blood boil. She stumbled onto the dark web and was sold by human traffickers. She saw what s 8.3kReads8.1Score1.1k14d adds
- 48 Gambling on Stones! 赌石！ [Jade Gambling] [Feel-Good Revenge] After being framed by a rich heir, betrayed by his girlfriend, and scorned by everyone, Lin Fan hits rock bottom and unexpectedly awakens X-ray vision. With a single glance, he can see through the rough outer shells of raw jade and perceive the spiritual energy in all things. From then on, one cut leaves him broke, the next makes him rich. He rises to power in the jade gambling world, with Imperial Green of glass-like quality, exquisite blood jade, heirloom ja 16.3kReads7.1Score33514d adds
- 49 Bloodshed in Wenjiang 血洒温江 A stirring, passionate anthem. In every age, there are young people who fight oppression for their ideals and beliefs, throwing themselves into the struggle without hesitation. With their passion and youth, they paint humanity's most magnificent portrait. The male protagonist stands unwavering in his faith amid battle. After enduring trial after trial, he forges a will of steel like Pavel's, winning the hearts of several remarkable heroines around him. They are witnesses to and participants in t 70Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Golden Eyes: The Jade Gambling King 黄金瞳：赌石王 [Stone Gambling + Appraisal + X-Ray Vision + Revenge + Underworld] On the brink of death after being hunted by his enemies, he accidentally awakens the Golden Eye through his family’s ancestral jade. From then on, he can see through solid stone and recognize every rare treasure under the sun. The stone-gambling family that stole the Lin family heirloom years ago has now become an industry giant. They sneer at me: “You think you’re good enough to gamble on stones?” That is, until I open three pie 1.2kReads6.8Score10114d adds
