Three lifetimes of bad luck: becoming a county magistrate in a prefectural seat. Three lifetimes of evil deeds: serving in a provincial capital. A lifetime of heinous crimes: ending up in the capital.
Low status, and screenwriters get pushed around; a bad market, and screenwriters deliver food; a troubled world, and screenwriters deliver food to the dead!
Because of AI animated dramas, short-form screenwriter Gu Pingsheng lost his job. Just as he was about to fall behind on rent, an opportunity landed in his lap: he could walk between the worlds of yin and yang, delivering food to the dead.
Gu Pingsheng never imagined that even a thousand years after their time had passed, ministers of a former dynasty would still be unable to forget an unfinished policy essay; palace consorts would still long for a taste of the pastries they once knew; a general would still cling to the hope of hearing old tales from the frontier; and even ordinary townsfolk would yearn to glimpse the bustle of mortal life once more...
This isn’t just food delivery. It’s the longing that crosses the boundary between life and death, and the many faces of human life buried by official histories.
