I Asked You to Escort the Empress, and You Used Her as Collateral for Your Escort Fee

This is a desperate, chaotic age where the uncanny roam and monsters run rampant. Human life is as worthless as grass, and the laws of the uncanny reign like the heavens. Everyone curses Lu Changsheng as a cold-blooded, money-grubbing “black-hearted fiend” who would even turn half a chestnut shell into a copper coin and enter it in his account book. He cares about money, not people, and has no principles! But the abandoned babies he protected, the helpless women he took in, and the dead he carried all know the truth: In this Great Wilderness, where people devour one another and ghosts devour ghosts, he is the only light. As long as you sign his Great Wilderness Road Contract, even if the sky falls and the earth splits, even if ten thousand ghosts block your way, as long as the money's right... he'll shoulder a coffin and carve out a path to peace for all ages! “When I, Lu Changsheng, escort a caravan, there are three rules: the route is set in stone, I make the rules, and...” Blades weep blood, flames consume the land. “The caravan lives as long as I do. If I die, the ghosts take over! If you want to ruin my job... it'll cost extra!!!”