After his business fails and he has nowhere left to turn, Su Chen unexpectedly inherits the run-down pawnshop his grandfather left behind and awakens the Divine Pawnshop System. Thus begins his wildly outrageous, swaggering career as a boss across the Three Realms.
While other people's employees are wage slaves, his are all retired big shots from the Three Realms: Pangu handles the sweeping and cleaning, and can move mountains and fill seas with a wave of his hand; the Supreme Lord Lao Zi works as the bookkeeper, doing accounts and refining pills; Meng Po serves milk tea at the front desk, with a bowl of soup that can make all your troubles vanish; and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven is head of security, ready to send anyone who causes trouble flying with a single strike of his staff.
You can pawn anything here: trade ten years of your lifespan for a fortune, a century of merit for a lifetime of love, or even put your soul, fortune, and the laws of the universe up for sale at a set price. The Heavenly Court comes to collect taxes and is chased off by Wukong. The Underworld comes to arrest people and gets a bowl of soup from Meng Po. The Tathagata wants to pawn Spirit Mountain for eternal life, but Su Chen turns him away at the door.
Then a mysterious organization begins secretly collecting souls, intent on resurrecting an ancient Demon God. The corrupt Heavenly Court and Underworld collude with it, plunging the Three Realms into catastrophe. At last, Su Chen awakens to his true identity as the master of the Chaos Pawnshop. Leading a group of retired big shots, he sweeps through the Three Realms, rebuilds order, and becomes the ultimate ruler who truly commands the life and death of all things.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.