Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: Chapter 6: No More Pretense, I’m a Cheating Techniques Expert, I’m Laying My Cards on the Table (1/2)

Chapter 6: Chapter 6: No More Pretense, I’m a Cheating Techniques Expert, I’m Laying My Cards on the Table

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As a child, Lin Chuan watched many Hong Kong “gambling”-themed movies.

Be it God of Gamblers or Sparrow Saint, after experiencing the life of a swindler and acquiring the skills of cheating techniques, he felt secretly delighted and couldn’t wait to play a few hands.

After all, a master of the Cheating Sect is super cool!

But when his landlord, Old Zhang, was caught, the tears of his family brought him back to reality from his self-satisfaction.

Using cheating techniques to show off in front of friends is fine, but once you step into a casino, things go beyond control.

Not to mention that there’s always someone better, “often walking by the river, one’s shoes are bound to get wet”.

The moment you get involved in gambling, you’ve already lost.

Lin Chuan snapped back to reality, sunlight streaming through the window and falling on his correct moral compass and handsome features.

Face the light, fear not the darkness.

Lin Chuan walked from the narrow living room into an even narrower bedroom, sat in front of an old desktop computer, his slender fingers resting on the keyboard, typing a sentence quickly to remind himself always.

[Crime is something I can’t commit, in this lifetime I won’t commit crime!]

Lin Chuan realized.

This Life Experience Card is quite a tease, now finally having experienced two relatively complete lives.

But what identities were they?

Thief, swindler.

Yep, very criminal, very much a sentence-head!

“I’d better count on novels to make money.”

Lin Chuan touched the stubble that he hadn’t shaved for two days, lost in thought.

He vaguely remembered that the swindler theme was once very popular.

In those days, an influent author posted on a forum with this theme of swindlers, and in just over half a year, created a brilliant record of 6 million hits and over 60,000 replies.

These numbers, seen today, might not compare to some videos casually posted by female celebrities.

But back then, the internet was not yet widespread, and the number of netizens had just barely passed one hundred million.

Swindlers, there’s potential!

Finally.

[Ding!]

[Export of “Swindler’s Life” complete, word count: 1,026,000.]

[Work: “Swindler’s Life”.]

[Status: Unpublished.]

[Popularity Value (Average Subscription): 0/1000.]

Lin Chuan immediately began to flip through “Swindler’s Life”.

It must be said, the life of a swindler Lin Chuan experienced in Virtual Reality, was perfectly replicated into text by the system.

This writing style was completely identical to Lin Chuan’s.

Afterward.

Lin Chuan opened the chat box, typed a message, and contacted his editor Youyou, “Youyou, I have a new book ready for release.”

Youyou replied quickly, “A new book? Is it still a thief series? I’ve seriously read the last thief one, it’s quite good, but the identity of a thief, readers find it hard to empathize with.”

Lin Chuan nodded.

Little thieves and robbers, indeed, do not easily resonate with readers.

His readers were either curious or learning lock-picking skills.

Lin Chuan, “So I’m thinking of changing the theme.”

Youyou, “What theme?”

Lin Chuan typed two characters decisively, “Swindler.”

“?”

Editor Youyou immediately typed a question mark.

As everyone knows, when the other party sends a question mark, it isn’t that they have a problem, but that they think you have a problem.

Lin Chuan’s mouth twitched, “Is this theme not okay?”

He had been writing novels since his college days, and although his results had always been dismal, Youyou still replied impatiently, willing to discuss themes and plots with him.

If it were another editor, they’d probably have already started berating him, telling Lin Chuan to ‘find a class to join’ or ‘to go work in a factory screwing bolts’ might be possible!

Cough, just speaking of Lin Chuan’s current financial situation, it might be better to work in a factory screwing bolts.

Youyou, “This theme is very good, and it also has a large audience.”

Nowadays, there are still many people fond of gambling.