Account of All Living Beings

This is an empire where everyone keeps accounts. The accounts of the living go to the Yamen, the accounts of the dead go to the soul envoy, and the accounts of the reincarnated are hung in the cabinet of the Soul Registration Bureau - you will never see it in your life, but it will follow you all your life. Shen Jin is a bookkeeper at the northernmost station of the empire. In nineteen years, he has only learned one thing: to keep the accounts even. In the winter of the 19th year, he found that his account was uneven. A debt from three hundred years ago, a number that should not exist, and a breath that does not belong to him. The lights of empire are bright. What lamp oil is is never written in the account. ——There is no providence, only bills.