Chapter One: The Last Hand

Seven days before the summer transfer window closed, the last valuable object in Lu Chen's office was carried away. The mover hugged the coffee machine against his chest while Zhou Hong, the debt collector, slapped a seizure notice onto the desk. “Next Monday. Eight hundred and sixty thousand yuan. If it isn't there, this company and that wreck you call a car go to auction.” “The company is only this desk now,” Lu said. “The desk belongs to your landlord.” Zhou smiled. “All you own is a ruined name.” Three years earlier, Lu had been the youngest golden agent in Chinese football. He exposed a club that had falsified a medical report to discard an injured client. Lu won the lawsuit and lost his career. Clubs stopped taking his calls.