Chapter 1 — Pawn Shop Changes Destiny

My mother died the year I became a spiritual being. I was protected inside the barrier, witnessed with my own eyes my father brutally killing her, then setting fire to burn down the entire Medicine Linh Coc. All because my mother is the goddess of Medicine Linh Coc. Her flesh and blood can help people live forever. My father then took her heart and blood and offered it to the Son of Heaven, thanks to which he was granted the title of Marquis and General. But he did not know that, in that tragic massacre, his mother still left one survivor. It's me. Fifteen years later, I took the fake name Linh Co and opened a pawn shop in the human world. Guests can pledge their merit, money or power to maintain their lives. That day, a man knelt in front of the store, begging me to take his father's life. When he told me my father's name, I tried to suppress the hatred in my heart and looked at that somewhat similar face for a long time. Fifteen years. We finally waited for this day. ## 1 I was taken to the Prime Minister's palace. Co Minh is lying on the hospital bed. The moment he saw me, his pupils immediately contracted violently.

“You… you are Linh Suong.”

He called my mother's name. Seeing me, he was like seeing a devil, he immediately spit out a mouthful of blood and fainted. Co Cuu Tu asked worriedly:

"Miss Linh, what's wrong with my father?"

I coldly did not answer, went straight to Co Minh's bed. Looking at that familiar face, scenes from fifteen years ago reappeared in my mind. The mother was brutally abused. More than ten thousand medicinal spirits in the Medicine Linh Coc were captured. Hatred surged up, my hand clenched so tightly that my nails almost stabbed into my skin. Fifteen years now. Co Minh, you should also pay your debt.

“The prime minister probably just remembered an old friend and couldn't bear it for a while.”

Co Cuu Tu didn't understand what I meant, he just opened his eyes wide. His mother, Khuong Thanh Nguyet, stood next to her, wiping her tears and impatiently saying:

"Miss Linh, I heard that you have supernatural abilities and can use your merit to succeed in your destiny. The matter of the old man depends on you."

I coldly glanced at them.

“ Merit, money or power, which do you choose?”

The Co family and their mother did not need to think and answered in unison:

“Merit.”

I immediately turned around.

"Can't connect. Prepare for the aftermath."

Co Cuu Tu immediately raised his voice:

"Why can't it be connected? Doesn't your pawn shop claim to be able to use merit to connect fate?"

"My father spent his whole life worrying about the country and loving the people. There is no one who does not remember his kindness. A good person like my father of course has immeasurable merit, why can't he succeed?"

I laughed coldly, shaking my head slightly.

“But your father has no merit.”

He doesn't believe:

"Miss Linh, that's impossible. Did something go wrong somewhere? Please recalculate."

“It can't be wrong.”

I stood up straight and walked in front of Co Cuu Tu.

"Your father's positive virtue is exhausted, and his negative virtue is lacking. He was able to prolong the decline until today entirely thanks to his unwillingness to resist."

I haven't finished speaking yet— ## 2 Co Minh has woken up. He stretched out his hand, breathing faintly, staring at me.

“Linh... Linh Suong, have you come to demand my life?”

Khuong Thanh Nguyet held his hand and cried until her heart broke.

“Master, you are speaking What's up? Look at me, I'm your wife."

After speaking, she turned to look at me and knelt down on the ground. She bowed her head until her forehead bled, begging me to save Co Minh. There was no wavering in my heart, I just coldly looked at her as if looking at a dead person. Khuong Thanh Nguyet and Co Minh both deserve to die. I will not ignore anyone. She should not interfere in the past, and should not let her hands be stained with the blood of my mother and all the creatures in the Medicine Linh Coc. When I was still in my mother's womb, I heard her say that Khuong Thanh Nguyet was madly in love with Co Minh. But because of her power and position, she herself arranged for Co Minh to meet his mother. She made her mother fall into the lies that Co Minh worked so hard to create. Co Minh took advantage of his mother's trust and let her lead him into Medicine Linh Coc, a place where mortals could not set foot. Thanks to that, he had the opportunity to arrange a massacre that year. Khuong Thanh Nguyet loved Co Minh so deeply, I really wanted to see if she was willing to exchange her life for his. I bent down.

“Yes, it can be saved.”

“But whose lives are you planning to mortgage?”

Khuong Thanh Nguyet looked at me confused.

"Miss Linh, don't you have to use the old man's merit?"

I curled my lips.

“Madam, you have misunderstood.”

“I'm asking, whose life do you want to mortgage?”

“The story of the Prime Minister having no merit, I don't want to have to repeat it.”

In the moment the faces of mother and daughter Khuong Thanh Nguyet and Co Cuu Tu turned pale, I gently waved my hand. A book symbolizing the lives and pasts of mortals immediately appeared in my hands. Mortal Ministry. I slowly turned the pages of notes about Co Minh. The page recording his merits was completely blank.

“This book records the lifetime merits of mortals. What you are seeing is the Prime Minister's past.”

“This page is blank, proving that he has no merit.”

“If you want to save him, there is only one way.”

“That is mortgaging the lifespan of one of the two, or mortgaging the wealth and power of the Prime Minister's office.”

“But think carefully. Once the transaction is completed, there is absolutely no turning back.”

Khuong Thanh Nguyet and Co Cuu Tu immediately fell silent. I smiled and asked:

“Are you done thinking about it yet?”

Khuong Thanh Nguyet was silent for a moment then asked:

“Miss Linh, why don't you use my merit?”