I'm a Fake Fortune Teller

In Republican-era Linjiang, on the wedding night of Shen Yanshu, the young heir of a silk shop, his father dies suddenly. Seven days later, his younger brother is made into a "River God's Boy" and set adrift upstream on the river. He is rescued by a six-fingered old man, Chen Baliang, and only then learns that this family destruction was not fate, but a setup by the Jiuliu Tang, a gang of Jianghu swindlers. To take revenge, he apprentices himself to learn the art of deception, transforming from the deceived into the one who sets the traps; as he dismantles gang after gang and reaches the seventh hall, he discovers that his master was the very person who set the original board, and that he himself had been nothing but a pawn from beginning to end. In the end, he stands before the whole city and performs the tricks he learned over three years one by one, then exposes them one by one: ghosts do not harm people—people harm people. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: I'm a Fake Fortune Teller — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠