A Happy Day from the Start, and You Call That a Funeral Song?

Zheng Jie comes from a family of funeral criers, a line of people who mourn the dead and guide their souls onward.

After a dream makes him the underworld's agent in the mortal world, he takes over the underworld's soul-guiding business.

The King of Hell offers Zheng Jie twenty extra years of life, but Zheng Jie isn't interested.

When rebels cut off the Road to the Yellow Springs, the King of Hell has no choice but to hand Zheng Jie the Three Lives Stone and promise him certain privileges.

From the stone's powers, Zheng Jie discovers that he can extract the life stories of the deceased and leave them with their families as keepsakes.

Zheng Jie thinks this is a good thing, but it leaves the families of the deceased with plenty of questions.

To honor his promise and pursue his funeral-crying business, he moves to a big city, determined to make funeral crying an intangible cultural heritage.

Using his position in the underworld, he opens doors for himself in every field of the mortal world.

Is this the complete Siku Quanshu?

Are these Einstein's final words?

Is this the forgotten chapter of history?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.