Three years ago, Chen Wang worked as a delivery driver by day, hauled cargo at night, and washed dishes before dawn, all to help his fiancée Lin Wanwan’s family repay debts, pay for medical care, and stay afloat.
Three years later, at their engagement banquet, Lin Wanwan arrived with Zhao Jingchen, the young master of the Zhao family, and publicly accused Chen Wang of fraudulently securing the engagement, harassing her, and stealing the Su family’s jade token. The guests mocked him, security guards held him down by the shoulders, and everyone demanded that he kneel.
Just as Chen Wang was about to be ground into the dirt, Su Tinglan, heiress to a financial dynasty in Jiangcheng, appeared and personally draped her coat over his shoulders. “It’s mine. Who I give it to is none of your business.”
At that moment, the ancestral copper coin on Chen Wang’s chest awakened.
The Taiqing Ledger Coin could see through the karma of good and evil and settle old debts in the mortal world. Zhao Jingchen owed him a reputation, a betrothal, and good fortune; the old master of the Su family carried a debt of dark karma; a spiritual vein lay beneath the feet of Jiangcheng’s wealthy families; an old case involving Chen Wang’s parents led to a hidden immortal sect. The so-called splendor of the city was nothing but a ledger used by immortal sects to harvest the world’s fortune.
From a poor young man with a balance of eight yuan and fifty cents, Chen Wang became the Su family’s temporary feng shui consultant. On the surface, he lived off a woman; in reality, he saved Old Master Su, broke evil feng shui formations, fought the wealthy, destroyed evil cultivators, started a company, and built a Daoist court. Others laughed that he depended on women, while he laughed that they couldn’t see how the Celestial Venerable was keeping a low profile. When people tried to force Su Tinglan to bow her head, he made the entire city of Jiangcheng learn who stood behind her.
This is the path of cultivation of a poor man’s rise to power, and a karmic account spanning the mortal world, immortal sects, and all the heavens.
The first debt Chen Wang repaid was the kindness Su Tinglan had shown him.
When everyone else thought he was filthy, she offered him a clean coat. In return, he would spend his life protecting her. She gave him a way to survive, and he would build her a Daoist court in the mortal world that no one dared to bully.
