Even gods can go bankrupt.
When the incense offerings run dry and old vows go unpaid, the divine treasures they borrowed are repossessed. Then the rivers, roads, and departed souls under their care can all fall into trouble.
Cheng Ye was just a small-loan debt collector until he got a special bad-debt assignment: the City God of Nanlin.
After that, this kind of work never let up.
City Gods, river gods, land gods... Whenever one was about to collapse, he had to go check it out. Some had people blocking their temple gates and demanding their dues. Others had left wishes unanswered for decades. And some had incense burning so fiercely you’d think they were thriving, when in fact they were little more than empty shells.
But as time went on, more and more gods began running into trouble.
