At midnight, a door appears in a corner of the city, with the words “Regret Pawnshop” hanging above it. Its owner, Su Qingyan, is the embodiment of regret energy from heaven and earth. For a thousand years, she has wielded the Book of Regretful Contracts, collecting the obsessions of the living. She seems lazy, but balances tenderness with ruthlessness: for the good, she finds the lowest price they must pay; for evildoers, she makes them pay the highest. The truly wicked are simply subdued.
The pawnshop has three nonhuman companions: eight-year-old Su Nian, born with yin-yang eyes, a light in Su Qingyan’s thousand years of loneliness; the thousand-year-old snake demon Xuanye, sharp-tongued and a clean freak, but fiercely protective of his own; and Tuntun, a tiny puppy shaped like a gas canister, actually a descendant of the ancient Taotie. Together, the three of them and one dog keep watch over the midnight pawnshop, reclaiming regrets and suppressing evil spirits.
Then the Book of Regretful Contracts is stolen, throwing the balance of regret energy into chaos and bringing the order of yin and yang to the brink of collapse. Su Qingyan puts aside her laziness and sets off in pursuit with her younger brother, her demon servant, and the Taotie that can’t even jump onto a cabinet.
Steal from her, and you’ll pay it back.
The article that impressed me deeply is "Ten Years", which tells the story of a heroine who started from scratch with her boyfriend but was abandoned. She pawned ten years of her life in exchange for the hero's bankruptcy and betrayal. Revenge was done, but she was left with nothing but emptiness. The moment her lifespan expired, she also lost the ability to love again. The sentence at the end, "I would rather trade ten years for leaving earlier," is more heartbreaking than any accusation. The pawnshop gave you fairness, but it couldn't take away the regret. This article is not sensational, it just makes people silent.
This book is like an old bronze mirror. In the mirror is the obsession of demons, and outside the world is the weakness of human beings. It reminds us that everything in the world has spirituality, and the human heart is the deepest and softest existence in the world. If you like healing stories that find warmth in ghost stories and truth in regrets, it will probably sneak into your heart and then you won't be able to let it go for a long time.
The setting is novel, the price rules imply the torture of human nature, the characters are vivid and interesting, and the core is warm. It is worth reading [Please update]