Shuo An, a modern luxury-goods pawnshop owner, opens his eyes to find he has transmigrated to Forgetting Slope, where the three realms of Journey to the West meet. He takes over a ramshackle pawnshop on the verge of collapse.
He plans to make a living with his knack for appraising treasures, but from the start, he gets incredibly lucky.
The Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Sun Wukong, shows up carrying the Sea-Calming Needle, hoping to trade it for three jars of peach wine, five baskets of fresh peaches, and a skewer of candied hawthorn!
The stingy Dragon King comes by every day to wail about wanting his needle back, while groups of heavenly immortals drop in to pawn things instead of doing their jobs.
All sorts of little monsters pawn junk for snacks, and even the Great Sage is forced to work at the shop to pay off his debt, hawking its services along the street.
There’s no heart-wrenching drama or life-or-death calamity, just the sharp-tongued shopkeeper Shuo An pulling all kinds of cons.
Using his modern luxury-brand business savvy, he turns the rundown pawnshop into a viral hotspot across the Three Realms. No monster-slaying or immortal cultivation for him: he wins by haggling, passing the buck, and marketing, becoming the richest “buck-passing shopkeeper” in the Three Realms.
