The Lady of the Afterlife Tower: Easy, Tower Master

[Ghosts] [Overpowered heroine] [Glamorous, badass older woman] [Hero with a hidden identity] [Heroine protects hero early on] [Love grows over time] [Iceberg melts for love]

There is a building in this world called the Rebirth House. It connects the world of the living with the underworld, doing business exclusively with the dead. It opens to customers on the full moon every month, on the fifteenth day, sending off departed souls and capturing the living who have sinned. It is known as the “Third Court.”

The owner, Chang Siyao, is a woman with white hair and red robes. Her gaze is coldly alluring, her delicate hands sever souls, and her jade feet tread on bones. She is domineering and ruthless, her age unknown, and she is famed as the living world's female Yama.

One day, a living soul entered the building. He wore a black robe and a golden crown, with dark hair and golden eyes. Even at death, he remained aloof and untouchable, a cold, dignified iceberg and an unusual being who could not enter the cycle of reincarnation.

All the little ghosts in the Rebirth House knew that the owner hated trouble most of all, and despised wild ghosts who thought they were clever. With wicked grins, they waited to see the man chopped into dumplings and thrown into a pot of boiling oil.

But what actually happened was...

The great hidden master, Chang Siyao, often wondered: Why had she gone soft that day? She should have kicked the man straight into the underworld. That would have been better than letting him push his luck and try to defy her day after day...