The Four-Year-Old Debt Collector.

About this drama

Nine hundred twenty-eight characters, and the copy gives its four-year-old heroine a ledger instead of a lullaby. When Chloe's mother dies, she leaves behind a single piece of evidence, a hospital bill signed by a man who never knew she existed. That man is Arthur Cavendish, the twelfth Duke of Cavendish, one of the wealthiest men in Europe, and the father Chloe has never met. The listing is precise about her motive: she does not come to him for love, she comes with a bill. The castle she enters is named a battlefield, and its occupant is specified, since Arthur's fiancée Elena has spent five years building a web of lies, embezzlement, and murder to claim the Cavendish fortune, and she will not let a four-year-old girl stand in her way. Chloe's inventory is itemized with the copy's own taste for asymmetry, her mother's wax seal, an old music box, and a mind that sees through every lie. The stakes are named as a world of old money, hidden crimes, and danger. The closing insists on her agency twice, she does not need to be saved, she came to collect, and then states the theme as the debts we owe and the ones we choose to repay. Withheld: how the mother died, what the bill proves, and how the contest with Elena resolves. Thirty episodes, complete, 762 views.

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