The Bankrupt Star Lord: From the Start, I Resell an Entire Space Route

Lu Shiyi, the stingiest merchant in the cosmos. He splits a single coin into eight pieces, haggles for three hours over a bit of scrap metal, and measures employee meals down to the gram. No one knows that this poor young man, running a rundown trading post on a garbage planet, has a pair of eyes that conceal a "scale." Every difference in value, profit margin, and flaw in a deal is crystal clear to him.

When a letter of acquisition from the Shen Corporation, the giant behind the First Chamber of Commerce, landed on his desk, everyone expected him to sign the contract on his knees. Instead, he smiled and opened a ledger in tatters: three thousand years ago, the founding ancestors of the giants in all twelve star domains of the universe had signed "original debt contracts" with his creditor lineage.

"Chairman Shen, the debt your family owes is due, principal and interest included."

One shrewd merchant, one scale, one tattered ledger: he's going to teach the entire cosmos to live by the rule, "Pay back what you owe."