About the book
Late 19th century, China. Kin-Fo, a child of a well-to-do family, lives an easy life without any obstacles or hardship. While wedding is coming, bad news from the bank shakes him. He goes bankruptcy -- he loses all his property overnight. A bitter and umbrageous life replaced the luxurious and boring one in a twinkling. The great strike brings him into confusion and pain. After pondering the disaster, he insures himself with a $200,000 life insurance and plans to commit suicide in order to get a huge amount of compensation -- the beneficiaries are his fiancée Lé-ou, and his mentor and friend, the philosopher Mr. Wang. Without enough courage to commit suicide, Kin-Fo signs a 'suicide agreement' with Mr. Wang, assigning this momentous 'life-ending' mission to him.
After signing the agreement, Mr. Wang promised to be fully up to this mission then left in a hurry. However, it turns that the bankruptcy doesn't happen and Kin-Fo's wealth doubles. Now he is not willing to and cannot give up his life. He wishes to cancel the 'suicide agreement', which makes him regretful and scared. But Mr. Wang and the agreement vanished. Kin-Fo knows that Mr. Wang is a man who never breaks his word! Death may fall upon him at any moment…
There is only one way: find Mr. Wang! Kin-Fo sets foot on his adventure...
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About the Author
Born in 1980, Julien Derouet, aka Julien Moca, is a French historian and comic writer. He began to publish his comic works in 2007. He is the author of Paroles de Mineurs and Biographie de Jean-Louis Pesc. He has published many crime graphic novels based on real cases: Seznec, les Sœurs Papin, les Amants Diaboliques, Marie Besnard and so on. Since he became a father, Julien has published a large number of young adult books in different publishing houses. He has published over 50 books so far.
Born in 1990, Wang Jing is a young talented comic artist from Guilin, Guangxi province, China.
Wang Jing is passionate for comics as a little boy and has kept learning drawing ever since. At first, he was keen on Japanese manga. When he first read French comics in high school, he was completely attracted by this new narrative method. Since then, he has been looking for his own narrative method in a large number of assignments and creations.
After graduating in 2013, he went to Shenzhen. He published his own comic series in a comic magazine. At the same time, he worked for an animation studio for many years. In 2007, he is dedicated solely to creating comics. After finishing The Adventure of a Chinese, he was invited to perform the adaption and creation of Age of Angels, a novella written by Liu Cixin, author of Three-Body Problem.