Reborn in 1998, Xu Zhaodi finds herself back at the wedding hall, where she is being forced to marry a gambling addict.
In her previous life, she endured twenty years of beatings. Someone replaced her medical records, which showed she had terminal stomach cancer, with those of a stranger, and at thirty-eight she died in a car crash outside a hospital.
In this life, the blue-cloth ledger her father left behind begins to settle what she is owed, one debt at a time: kindness, grudges, money, and lives, all recorded in meticulous detail.
She buys an old book for eighty cents, sells it for a thousand times the price, escapes her arranged marriage, and gets into college. She opens a restaurant, goes into e-commerce, and builds a brand, fighting her way from Qing Shui River all the way to the provincial capital.
The gambling addict Chen Jianbin won’t leave her alone. He blocks her at the exam hall, at the school gate, and even at the old granary, knife in hand.
But this time, she is no longer the Xu Zhaodi who endured beatings without daring to speak up. She’ll collect every debt owed to her, with interest.
Watch as the ledgers of two lifetimes help her rise from a young woman who nearly died at her own wedding to the first female entrepreneur to seize the moment as the tides of an era turn.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
