Record of the Bronze Pact

A copper token, a trade in equivalent cause and effect.

Wishes are never free; everything gained must be paid for.

Chen Yan, a boy from the lowest rung of society, enters the world of contracts to save his seriously ill mother. He gambles with human nature within the bounds of the red thread and glimpses the truth of reincarnation through countless transactions.

I do not create happy endings; I only fulfill the terms of cause and effect. In the end, he chooses to make himself the anchor and repay the debt of the entire cycle of reincarnation.