If someone dies, the debt will be cancelled? No.
The person dies, but the account remains.
And it's still accruing interest.
My name is Gu Changsheng, and I am the accountant of Yingtianfu Futong Bank.
My grandfather passed down a pair of eyes that can see things in the ledger that others cannot see——
Behind every debt, what kind of creditor stands.
Some creditors are living people, wearing blue shirts and cloth shoes, standing next to the account pages, waiting for collection.
Some creditors are dead people with green faces and white eyes, standing under the lines of ink, waiting for their lives to be paid for.
The living owe money, the dead owe life.
And I am the one caught in the middle——
To settle accounts for the dead.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, I opened an old account and found a debtor who had been dead for twenty-one years. A line of cinnabar notation appeared next to his name:
One life per day. Current balance owed: eight lives.
I did the math, and it was exactly eight days from the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month to now.
One life a day.
But only one body was recovered.
Who are the other seven?
What makes my back even more chilly is——
On the account book, another name appeared at some point.
That name is mine.
Gu Changsheng.
Dead people don't default on their debts.
But some people -
Scarier than ghosts.
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yin and Yang counting house settled accounts for the dead.
Behind every bad debt, there is a dead soul waiting.
