Shen Rongyang transmigrated.
The good news: she became the sect leader of a cultivation sect.
The bad news: the previous sect leader fled with the shareholders, leaving her with a debt that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Forced to become the legal representative, Shen Rongyang looked up at the sky. How about you just kill me instead?
But life had to go on, and debts had to be repaid.
Fortunately, those two heartless people had left her a fish pond, so Shen Rongyang wouldn't starve to death.
And so, every day she diligently sold fish and worked hard to pay off her debt.
Her greatest pleasure was visiting the nameless statue on the neighboring mountain to pray for an early end to her debt and a fortune.
Every time she finished praying, some money or other would come in. Shen Rongyang became all the more devoted in her worship.
Until one day, on her way home, she came across someone lying by the road, seemingly dead or alive.
Shen Rongyang: ...
Is this also the windfall you're sending my way?
Reason told her not to pick up some random person off the road, but the values instilled in her by nine years of compulsory education wouldn't let her leave someone to die.
To make sure she didn't lose out, Shen Rongyang decided to become her creditor.
Looking at the endless string of digits on the contract, Shen Rongyang's conscience bled. The dragon-slaying hero had become a dragon herself.
The bedridden debtor, Chi Ji, watched her struggle to suppress a smile. "..."
Her debtor was completely obedient, if exceptionally clingy, constantly wanting to snuggle up and hug her.
Looking at the face that had grown right into her heart, Shen Rongyang thought: That's fine. I can live with that.
Later, Chi Ji earned money to pay back her debt, while Shen Rongyang turned around and repaid the sect's debt. They both had a wonderful future ahead of them.
On the day she finally paid off her debt, Shen Rongyang made a special trip to the neighboring mountain to give thanks.
But the cultivator she'd taken in pinned her against the cold statue. Warm fingertips traced her lips as she spoke in a gentle, lingering voice: "I'm right here in front of you. Why are you still praying to a statue?"
Chi Ji was punished by the Heavenly Dao, which placed a seal on her that kept her in constant pain.
She'd planned to end it all, but the pain left her unable to move her hand.
At the depths of her despair, she met the most special person in her life.
When she was near her, the pain eased. When she hugged her, the pain disappeared.
Chi Ji wasn't afraid of dying, but she was afraid of pain, and wished she could cling to her for all twelve hours of the day.
To stay by her side, she chose to sign that moldy, shamelessly exploitative contract.
When Shen Rongyang sold fish, she joined in. When Shen Rongyang prayed, she followed along.
As Shen Rongyang extolled the god day after day, praising them as the greatest in heaven and on earth, Chi Ji grew more and more suspicious.
Wasn't this fearsome statue, with a dog at its side, actually her?
No, wait. Was the dog also her?
Chi Ji looked at Shen Rongyang beside her, fervently praying for a fortune, and hesitated.
Was there really a future in worshipping a sword cultivator?
Soft-hearted, unscrupulous money-grubber x Short-tempered in public, obedient in private, hypocritical, impoverished demigod
Theme: Never give up
