The Deep Con

Begging in the freezing snow with shattered limbs and a body scarred by fire, he was a pawn in someone else’s cruel game. But beneath the suffering lives an untamed thing – a wild beast that refuses the cage, driven by pure survival instinct. As he claws his way out of the gutter, he’s pulled into a treacherous world of martial arts and layered schemes: the cunning traps of figures like Bai Feifei, who uses herself as bait; the machinations of powerful bosses and ruthless enforcers; ambushes where friend and foe blur into one. A mysterious ailment gnaws at him from within, leaving him in agony at the worst moments. Still he pushes forward – bound by a past he can’t outrun and by a younger sister whose fate may be tangled with his own. With a grand ‘rat scheme’ closing its jaws around everyone, he must master deception and combat not just to survive, but to drag the truth of the deep con that shaped him into the light.