I Married the Dead Seven Times

She was married off in someone else's place six times. The groom for the seventh time was still alive.

In the business of stand-in brides, you repay someone else's life with your own. The moment she touched the man's sleeve, she saw nine debts weighing on him. Breaking off the engagement did not mean breaking off a marriage. It meant losing a life.

"The ledger does not recognize the living. It only recognizes those who repay the debt."

Then she would uncover, one by one, every debt in this world that had been passed off onto someone else.