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The Ledger of Ruin
Words: 3187 · Source Novel:: The Debt of Blood
Shen Yuan, posing as a merchant, maneuvers his way into a business partnership with the second Gao son. He secretly leaks incriminating ledgers to rival warlords, triggering a brutal trade war that cripples the Gao family fortune. Lin Xue discovers that Shen Yuan is systematically acquiring the Gao family's ancestral lands and businesses through shell companies. As she digs deeper, she finds a hidden connection: a mute servant in the Gao household who was once a maid to the murdered Yang Erjie. The servant communicates a crucial clue—the patriarch Gao Zhanying had fathered a child with a prostitute, a boy who was thrown away like garbage on the night he was born.
The Stranger at the Funeral
Words: 3047 · Source Novel:: The Debt of Blood
In 1935 Tianjin, the influential Gao family buries its patriarch Gao Zhanying, the same man who once killed his wife and bribed courts in the infamous Yang Erjie case decades ago. An uninvited, scarred stranger named Shen Yuan attends the funeral, unnerving the three legitimate Gao sons. Meanwhile, Inspector Lin Xue, a hardened female detective with a traumatic past, is called to a gruesome scene: the eldest Gao son is found dead, his body arranged exactly like Yang Erjie's corpse after exhumation. Lin Xue immediately senses the murder is a message, and her investigation begins pulling at threads that tie back to the forgotten victims of the Gao empire.