About the book
Forget everything you know about Zijin Chen. If his other novels are heavy social realist mysteries,Born With Luck (literarily Low IQ Crime) is a grenade of pure joy. Two fame-hungry bandits, a nest of scheming politicians and tycoons, and one impossibly lucky bumbling cop crash together in an absurdist carnival of misunderstandings and lethal reversals. From the mastermind behind The Bad Kids, this is his most explosively entertaining novel yet, shredding the genius-detective playbook with razor-sharp multiple narratives that weaponize suspense and detonate laughter on every page. Its TV adaptation just set Chinese social media on fire again. In an age of global anxiety, Born With Luck delivers what readers are starving for: guaranteed pleasure—safe, cathartic, and brutally addictive.
