by Qifeng
Destiny doesn’t play fair. Neither does John. John never meant to break the game. One moment he was just another guy trying to survive life’s bad hands.The next, he was sitting at a table where the stakes were time, reality, and the fate of entire worlds. First came the House. Then the board. Then the thing beneath the board. Now the rules are changing. Reality is governed by a cosmic game played across shifting boards—chess, cards, and stranger systems older than time itself. Kings move. Queens hunt. Entire universes become pieces. John has only one advantage. He brought six aces to a game that was never supposed to allow more than four. But every move has consequences. The deeper the board goes, the older the rules become.And somewhere beneath it all, something ancient has been waiting for the game to start again. If John wants to survive, he’ll have to do the impossible: Beat destinywithout breaking the board. Or become the dealer of the final hand.
