Auto mechanic Xu Chi spent three years in prison after taking the blame for his older brother. On the day he gets out, he awakens a “Book of Crimes.” Every crime he took the fall for is absurdly made manifest on the real culprit, where everyone can see it. **At He Yongchang's docks, he uses his knack for “keeping the books from being rubbed in your face” to settle the He family's twenty years of wicked deeds in one fell swoop. The century-old accounts of the Yongxin Ledger House, the century-old books of the Shen family accountants, the debts owed to the children of the Charity Home: page by page, the ledger turns, and every account is settled. He goes from collecting one person's debt to settling the accounts of an entire city. In the end, he brings the book into the sunlight of the archives.
