Two Hundred Trillion in Debt: Sell My Senior Brother or Draw My Sword?

[A True Ensemble Cast] [Mutual Redemption] [Goofy, but Primarily Serious] [Xianxia and Wuxia]

Yue Tao is rich and has plenty of free time, and she has a senior martial brother she gets along with very well. Though she is a sword cultivator, she is nothing like the impoverished, heartless sword cultivators of popular rumor.

On an ordinary spring day blessed with fine weather, Yue Tao receives a message from a stranger. She studies it for a long time before making out a few large words between the lines: "Your master owes me spirit stones!"

All right, all right. Debts must be repaid; it's only right and proper. Since the creditor has come knocking and my master is in seclusion, I'll pay her debt for her.

...Wait, what do you mean this IOU was written two hundred years ago?

...And what do you mean that, with compound interest, the debt has now reached two quadrillion?

Well, this is a fine mess.

She can't just leave the mess her master made alone, so she takes her senior martial brother along and sets out on a long journey to repay the debt.

Her senior martial brother, Xie Zhu, puts on a mournful face. "Junior Sister, you're not planning to sell me to pay it off, are you?"

Yue Tao glances at him and says nothing.

So all along the way, Xie Zhu wails: "Could it be that you really mean to sell your brother for glory? Don't fall silent and speed up your flying sword! Your senior brother is scared! Aaaah!"

But the farther Yue Tao travels, the more she realizes this is a tangled debt involving almost everyone.

If someone failed to protect you with all their might, but you risked your life to repay them, does that count as a debt?

If someone risked their life to save you but failed, does that count as a debt?

If someone harms the innocent in pursuit of revenge, does that count as a debt?

Is love a debt?

So Yue Tao draws her sword.

If the debts of the whole world cannot be settled, then she will cut them all away and start over.

*For more notes and content warnings, see the end of Chapter One.