The world strives for the peak of martial arts, risking life and limb to seize opportunities on the path to immortality.
Wealth, companions, techniques, and territory: all mean mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, with geniuses falling like rain.
Wang Ansheng doesn't fight or compete. He just wants to live forever by relying on his trade.
Unfortunately, people keep making trouble for him.
So he quietly keeps a ledger.
"Zhao Meng, junior enforcer of the Green Wolf Gang. Deserves to die. Method: Hide medicine in pastries. Takes eighteen months to die of heart and lung failure. No way to trace it."
"Granny Zhou, an inner-city purchasing woman. Signs of a ruined household. Method: ..."
"Auntie Han. Has the look of a future mother-in-law. Method: Avoid her."
Countless years later, Wang Ansheng sits peacefully in the back courtyard of his shop in the prefectural city, sunning himself as he flips through his ledger.
Behind him, countless ledgers turn to ash.
