Zhuo Fan, a young man from Tongzi Tower, owes seventeen spiritual stone taxes.
Seventeen spiritual stones - in the hands of a rich man, it is not enough to buy a meal of feed for the monster. In his hands, it is the price of a whole life.
The citizen system determined that he had negative equity. The spirit stone tax was settled monthly, and those who could not pay were stripped of their citizenship and their names erased from the city map.
The novel is relatively hardcore,