The Underworld's Debt Collector

Name: The Underworld's Debt Collector
Author: Resolutely Never Stop Updating

地府催债人

by Resolutely Never Stop Updating (坚决不断更)

Status: Completed
Length: 471k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban High-Concept
Updated: 9mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

A wish made is a debt incurred.

No matter when, it must be repaid.

Yet so many people pray to gods and Buddhas or beseech spirits, only to turn around and forget their vows once their wishes come true.

Some even count on death to wipe their debts away.

But everything began to change when Zhang Ping An brought back an old, battered abacus from the underworld.

It was all because the King of Hell had told him: “Zhang Ping An, go collect the debts owed by those deadbeats in the mortal realm, and the wishes they made. I’ll give you half the spoils.”

From then on, Zhang Ping An became the one and only debt collector across the Three Realms.

He helped the local earth god find the shopkeeper who had torn down his temple. When the abacus clicked, woodlice swarmed through the warehouse. It was where the shopkeeper had once promised to offer cakes every month.

He helped a female ghost find the faithless scholar who had betrayed her. His clairvoyant eye revealed a jade pendant beneath the bed, seeping black water. She had traded her life for his success, and he had promised to marry her if he passed the imperial examinations.

The more he worked the abacus, the brighter it shone. He saw it all:

People mixing sawdust into their incense, embezzling merit money, and promising to eat vegetarian only to tuck into pig trotters.

Gradually, Zhang Ping An came to understand: debts to gods and Buddhas must be repaid with a clear conscience.

Debts to ghosts must be paid with one’s life; debts to Heaven and Earth cannot be escaped.

Clutching the scorching abacus, Zhang Ping An gazed at the city’s lights. He wasn’t collecting debts so much as collecting the most precious thing in this world: trust.

Stats

214Chapters

25.5kReads · 30 days

302.9kReads · all time

1.3kShelves

8.8Score

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