[Goofy fun + hates working + goes off the rails + powerful new hire + satisfying power fantasy]
Ye Xuan is determined to find a stable job with meals and lodging included, flexible hours, a monthly salary of over ten thousand, and a four-days-on, three-days-off schedule. Instead, she accidentally ends up in the poor and stingy Underworld.
“This has to be a scam!” Bound by her contract, Ye Xuan has no choice but to take the job and become a soul-catcher.
To get her contract terminated, Ye Xuan decides to go completely off the rails. While others catch ghosts, she studies the law. She believes in science, not magic. Her idol is Zhang San, the lawless outlaw, and she swears she’ll find a way to escape this “scam operation.”
When other soul-catchers meet a vengeful ghost they can’t subdue: “Run!”
When Ye Xuan meets one: “Please, beat me half to death. Then I can claim workplace injury compensation and help the Underworld go bankrupt faster.”
Other soul-catchers clock in every week and go all out to hit their performance targets.
Ye Xuan does nothing. “The Underworld doesn’t support idle people. Hurry up and fire me.”
Her boss, King Qin Guang: “How about you go to another Underworld as an outstanding soul-catcher and mess up their performance targets instead?”
Ye Xuan: “Huh? Why does that sound less like I got fired and more like I got promoted?”
A story about an idle soul-catcher who hates working and wants nothing more than to get fired, fighting fraud in the Underworld by going off the rails and working hard to get a four-days-on, three-days-off schedule.
