I Misread the Underworld's Ledger, So I Deliver Letters Home for the Dead

[Money-loving, ghost-fearing heiress Gu Wantang VS sharp-tongued, work-pushing underworld ledger]

[No romance + lighthearted comedy + historical + supernatural + ghost-hunting + crime-solving + deduction]

Before the richest man in Qingshui Town died, he left Gu Wantang three shops, two chests of gold and silver, and a battered old ledger.

She happily accepted the first two and planned to burn the last one. But just as she brought a firestarter close, a line appeared on the ledger's page: "Go ahead and burn it. You'll be opening an account over here sooner or later anyway."

Gu Wantang's hand trembled. "Can I still return it?"

"No. The dead have already taken a number."

From then on, a three-year-old ghost girl asked her to deliver a message to her mother, a soldier killed in battle asked her to persuade his childhood sweetheart to marry someone else, and an old woman who'd received counterfeit hell money insisted on coming back to teach her unfilial son a lesson. Gu Wantang ran herself ragged, wanting only to get rid of the ledger for good.

Then a wrongfully killed ghost came knocking, claiming to have left behind evidence. The newly appointed county magistrate had only one thing to say: "Please ask which tree the evidence was buried under."

Gu Wantang looked down at the ledger, where the writing had started moving again...