The moonlit seventh floor during night shift; Lu Yan is introduced in her ordinary work role.

Lu Yan performs routine courier work while the floor hierarchy is explained.

The reader learns Lu Yan can read simplified courier receipts but not formal cultivation script, and that her grandmother’s care depends on clean work.

A normal deposit establishes the Heaven-Balance Scale and the tasting procedure before the chapter’s dangerous deposit arrives.

Lu Yan’s unusual sensitivity is shown as a private survival tool, not yet explained to others.

The night shift winds down, creating space for the green-hooded customer’s arrival.

The green-hooded customer appears near closing with a lacquered case.

Lu Yan follows the correct steps before opening and weighing the deposit.

The thirty-year deposit is placed on the Heaven-Balance Scale, which confirms its weight.

The required mortal verification is explained in plain terms immediately before Lu Yan performs it.

Lu Yan tastes the seal and recognizes something impossible.

The taste connects to Lu Yan’s remembered image of her mother, Lu Suwen, and the famine story Lu Yan was raised with.

Lu Yan nearly drops the deposit but recovers before the weighing fails.

Lu Yan understands she cannot accuse the customer or abandon her post without consequences.

Lu Yan hides the discovery and gives the official answer required by procedure.

Lu Yan records the transaction while formal script obscures what the contract truly says.

Lu Yan signs the chit and returns the sealed years, letting the customer leave.

The green-hooded customer leaves; Lu Yan experiences one last bloodline afterimage of her mother.