The Old Contract Broker

One contract, five roles established: The guide opens the path between Yin and Yang; the intermediary sets the terms; the guarantor assumes responsibility for the debt; the witness keeps the record; the arbiter decides right from wrong. One copy is burned to the gods above, while another remains in the human world as proof. Shen Yifan returns to his village to sell his ancestral home, only to have a water wraith pin him to the bed and demand repayment. The copper “guide” token his grandfather left him lets him escape for now. But why has the water wraith suddenly come ashore? What debt does it want repaid? What is the “guide” token? And why him of all people...