Burning Paper Money Earned Me a Bad Review, and a Yin Messenger Came Knocking

Song Ye is the struggling owner of a funeral goods shop on the verge of bankruptcy. Then, late one night, a black-clad underworld enforcer pounds on his door and slaps down a complaint from the Netherworld: a ghost has reported that the paper money he sells is all worthless junk, with shrunken denominations and ink that rubs off badly! The enforcer coldly offers him two choices: shut down the shop and have his memories erased, or pass the Netherworld civil service exam and get licensed.

Song Ye chooses the latter without hesitation, becoming the only paper effigy maker in the world of the living certified as a "specially approved supplier to the Netherworld"! From then on, the paper money stamped by him becomes hard currency in the afterlife, the paper villas he builds are ready for ghosts to move right into, and even the underworld enforcers have to beg him to make custom gear.

Wealthy people in the living world wave checks and line up to buy from him, while powerful figures in the underworld place order after order through dreams. But one eerie problem after another soon follows: someone offers a fortune for a knife that can kill ghosts in the afterlife; a vengeful ghost asks him to deliver a death notice to its enemy in the living world; and a mysterious longtime customer orders a hundred faceless paper figures every month...

As Song Ye follows the orders to uncover the truth, he discovers that his parents' bizarre car accident three years ago is closely connected to those mysterious paper figures! Just how big can this monopoly business spanning the worlds of the living and the dead become?

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