The Qingming Scroll: A Debt Repaid

Lu Wentao invested in the Qingming Shanghe City project, lost 200 million, and after being rescued from a river suicide attempt, became a vegetative patient. His wife's family heirloom, the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," hung in his hospital room, and his soul plunged into the scroll. No system, no cheat codes—he relies solely on his own knowledge to survive. The scroll has its own laws. In the painting, he opens workshops and builds houses, and the original painting simultaneously generates buildings. If his industry is burned down, the buildings on the painting disappear accordingly. The wealth accumulated in the painting will raise the auction price of the ancient painting in reality. In reality, creditors covet the ancient painting and wait for a chance to steal and sell it. In Bianliang City, Lu Wentao engages in business and medicine, cultivating cowpox to prevent smallpox. He and his wife gaze at each other through the painting, with a telepathic connection, but they cannot converse. When he encounters danger in the painting, his wife can sense the crisis. Only when he earns 200 million in the scroll and the ancient painting sells for 200 million can he awaken. The gold and silver in the painting cannot be brought out; upon waking, he still has nothing. The road to repaying debt within the scroll thus begins. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Qingming Scroll: A Debt Repaid — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠