In Dajing Chaotang, corruption is rampant, and all the profits from salt and iron go into the private pockets of the powerful. Su Wan, a VP of an investment bank in her previous life, suddenly died and was transformed into the daughter of a guilty minister. On the day her house was ransacked, she stopped the Prince Regent's carriage.
"A folk girl has a way to raise 450,000 taels of silver in ten days."
She used a piece of salt to ignite the debt note, tearing a crack in the certain death situation. From then on, the ledger is the knife and the numbers are the blade. Youzhou's military horse case, Yangzhou's salt policy malpractice, Hangzhou's Tea Mountain blood and tears, the shady story of the imperial palace in the capital... She used her auditing eye to calculate the world's bad debts, kill corrupt officials, and win the hearts and minds of the people.
But there is a bigger mystery beyond the ledger. As the chosen daughter of her tribe, Su Wan was endowed with super powers. Plug-ins are fully enabled. What mission does she have? The jade pendant left by her mother, the bloodline of the former Xiao family, the soul locked in the water prison, the unjust case of extermination fifteen years ago... Every account she checked pointed to the same answer.
Shen Yu waved his fan, floated down from the beam, and said, "It's not decent for so many people to bully a little girl." From then on, he was her purse, backing, and partner, and he was also the only debt she could not settle.
The regent Xie Heng, whom the late emperor asked Gu to assist his ministers, said: "You are a debt collector, and I am a debt repayer. Let's go together." From then on, he was her sword, her shield, and her reliance in the whirlpool of power.
This is not a story about a female officer investigating a crime. This is a story about a time traveler using modern audit thinking to fight his way through the ancient power field. When the ledgers are clean, people's hearts will be clean. The world will be clean. But what she wanted was never just a clean account.
She wants those lives hidden behind the numbers to be calculated for the world to see, one by one.
