The Yangzhou salt merchant Ji's family was overturned overnight. Ji Cheng, the eldest daughter, took off her hairpin skirt and entered the world of men.
Sixteen-year-old Ji Cheng appears to be gentle and reserved, but in fact he has a sharp mind and a gift for photographic memory of numbers. When her father was unjustly imprisoned and all the family property was confiscated, she did not cry and cry. Instead, she picked up the account books and checked them one by one, calculating step by step. The abacus beads were flying at her fingertips, and what she pulled out was not copper coins, but human hearts, the truth, and the bloody path of a woman fighting in a desperate situation.
From government office papers to Ministry of Justice case files, from Yangzhou silk shops to capital embroidery workshops, she, as a female prostitute, dealt with salt merchants, officials and salt lords. The numbers on the account book are her sword, and the abacus is her shield. She doesn't believe in fate, she only believes in the abacus in her hand - she can calculate the world's accounts and calculate the rewards of good and evil.
What she couldn't figure out was one person.
Gu Yanzhi, the son of the governor, a secret envoy, cold-faced and taciturn, was ordered by the emperor to secretly investigate the Lianghuai salt case. He shouldn't have interfered in the Ji family's small cases, but he appeared again and again in her most embarrassing moments. He blocked the knife for her, checked the certificate for her, and wiped away her tears under the moonlight, but he still refused to say "I help you" - he just did it and then remained silent.
When the family's injustice was revealed, pawnshops opened all over the north and south, and when the man who had used her as a pawn knelt in prison and confessed, Ji Cheng finally understood: the most powerful plan in the world is not to defeat the opponent, but to keep one's heart.
And what she wanted most was never the wealth, but the person who said to her - "I'm back and I won't leave."
The sound of abacus calculation cannot satisfy people's hearts.
Concept: "The Sound of Abacus" is not a story about "winning". Ji Cheng has won many lawsuits, many business deals, and the respect of many people. But she also lost a lot - her mother died young, her father was imprisoned, her uncle betrayed her, and her family fortune was scattered. She is not a winner, she is just a person who did not fall under the weight of fate. She became her own supporter. This is what this story wants to say the most: no matter what situation you are in, no matter what you encounter, you can be your own backer. Don't rely on parents, don't rely on husband, don't rely on fate. On your own. The sound of abacus can clear the world's accounts, and it can also calculate how far a woman can go.