Ao Jin did not know what had come over her.
Ever since she met a jar merchant named Mu Cheng at Dragon Palace Market, ever since she spent her entire monthly allowance on the first day without smashing open anything good, Ao Jin had been hooked. She could not control herself. Every time, she found herself returning to his stall, and every time she came to her senses, she had not a coin left.
First went her monthly allowance, then her private savings. Then she borrowed from other dragons in the Dragon Palace, and after that, from people throughout Dragon Palace Market. In just two or three years, Ao Jin had unknowingly piled up a mountain of debt. It was so vast that even if she devoted her entire monthly allowance to it, she could not pay it off in several hundred years.
Ao Jin was dumbstruck by what she had done. When creditors began arriving at her door one after another, she lived in fear and could not sleep. Within three to five months, their demands had left her suspicious of everything and haggard. The slightest rustle of grass now made her flinch. She was on the verge of collapse.
"Almost there. We can draw in the net."
At Dragon Palace Market, Mu Cheng watched Ao Jin through the surveillance artifact he had left on her. Once he was certain she was about to buckle under the pressure, he made his judgment.
The dragon-shaped jade pendant at Mu Cheng's waist spoke as well. "This dragon girl was fated to suffer this. The Immortal Monarch has his eye on her, and so does Buddha. Once gu was planted in her Dao Heart, she could no longer suppress her desires. Whenever she came here, the Mind-Confounding Incense robbed her of all