Late Ming: I Save the Nation with Deception

After transmigrating into the late Ming as a compulsive gambler, Yang Changqing owes ten taels to the King of Hell and has only twenty-three coins to his name. In his previous life, he was an anti-scam magician who gave even Las Vegas headaches. Reading dice by their sounds, spotting marked tiles, reading people by their expressions: that's all basic technique. He uses two decks of cards to win back his life, only to become “the son of an old friend” of Liu Fu, the gambling house's powerful owner. He only wants to use his sleight of hand to reclaim his family's estate and live in peace. But nothing goes smoothly, and he hits a wall at every turn. He doesn't realize that from the moment he won his first game, he had already fallen into a carefully woven net. At one end is a gambling house owner who hides a blade behind his smile; at the other, an empire on the brink of collapse. Li Zicheng sweeps across the Central Plains, while the Jianzhou cavalry watches hungrily. Yang Changqing: The Yangzhou massacre and the Jiading massacres? None of that will happen. With this vast web I weave with my own hands, I'll hold up a piece of the Ming sky.