Transportation Debt

Luck is a debt, and profits and losses must be repaid. In Tianjin Wei of the Republic of China, the gambler "Tian" had an ancient copper coin with a chipped edge between his fingers. The dice obeys his words, the cards go according to his wishes, and all seventeen are killed. What you win is not money, but the right of others to breathe. Until the red seal comes to the door. The cinnabar sesame seed cakes wrapped in oil paper, Uncle Nine's vague warning, and the pair of hands in the dark handing over a scarlet envelope—those were not invitations, but shipping debts from a hundred years ago, and a life-threatening curse that spanned three generations for countless people whose luck had been sucked away by copper coins. Only then did God realize that what the copper coins swallowed was not luck, but hope. Everyone who wins is overdrawing their future vitality as interest. And creditors want more than just money.