Lin Yuan, a modern office worker, wakes up in the Great Jing Dynasty in the body of a poor young man from Qingxi Town, who has just been beaten to death.
He owes loan-shark money to the Zhao family. If he doesn’t pay within three days, they’ll take his home and his life.
No System, no martial arts, no golden finger.
Just a battered body, half a cold bun, and an old copper coin he has worn close to his skin for twenty years.
From being cornered by thugs at his door to bringing down the town bully; from establishing himself in the county seat to sitting across from Zhao Jinghan, the man who rules the town with an iron fist, in the accounts room. One by one, he sorts through real and falsified books, peeling back layer after layer of deception involving the grain shop, the Bluestone Society, the silk shop, and the county yamen’s secret accounts.
People call him “the little bookkeeper.”
But this little bookkeeper uses an abacus and an understanding of human nature to calculate Zhao Jinghan, a man who has always had his way, into a dead end.
Grounded, realistic low-level martial arts, no overpowered cheat.
An ordinary man fights his way out of the abyss and claws out a chance to live.
