Hell’s HR: From the Start, I Talk the King of Hell into Quitting

Lin Du, an HR worker who dies suddenly from overwork after endless 996 shifts, transmigrates to an apocalyptic world riddled with rules-based horror and activates the Underworld Labor Law System. The deadly instances everyone fears look to her like exploitative performance reviews where the underworld squeezes its employees. While others risk their lives to escape, she walks right in and negotiates wages and time off with the evil spirits, recites the law to break the rules of the hauntings, and persuades ghosts of all kinds to go on strike and switch jobs. She recruits a sales rep, an accountant, a master chef, and a cyber lawyer to form an anti-overwork squad. Together, they travel through one instance after another, rescuing underworld workers driven mad by KPIs. This enrages the underworld’s general affairs office, which places her under a region-wide manhunt and sends underworld enforcers to hunt her down. Lin Du takes a different path, transforming terrifying instances into a tourism district spanning both the living and the dead, replacing bloody reaping with voluntary work. A hundred-day trial will decide the victor and bring down a thousand-year-old system of cutthroat overwork in the underworld. From then on, the underworld abolishes round-the-clock overtime. All ghosts get two days off a week, exploitation disappears from Hell, and the living and dead coexist in peace. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.